Proclaimed the winner of December’s presidential election by the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) constitutional court on 9 January, with 73.47% of the vote, Félix Tshisekedi will be sworn in on 20 January.
While Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta was alone in making the trip five years ago for Tshisekedi’s first swearing-in ceremony, this time the Congolese president is expecting more than 15 of his
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