Felix Tshisekedi, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is scheduled to take office on Saturday for a second five-year term following a landslide of elections that the opposition has denounced as fraudulent and called for protests. The ceremony will take place at Kinshasa’s 80,000-seat Martyrs sports stadium, which is the preferred venue […]

DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has won a second term in office with a landslide victory, according to provisional results announced Sunday, in a vote opposition leaders have dismissed as a “sham”. Provisional results from the single-round presidential ballot, declared by the country’s electoral commission Ceni, showed that Tshisekedi had won 73 per cent of […]