Why Congo’s Election Is Headed for a Chaotic Outcome
almost 7 years in Washington Post
The Democratic Republic of Congo, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest country, looks set to witness its first-ever transfer of power via the ballot box after opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi, 55, was declared the provisional winner of Dec. 30 presidential elections. The result, which the Constitutional Court still needs to validate, flew in the face of expectations that outgoing President Joseph Kabila’s protege, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, would win. Rival opposition leader Martin Fayulu described th
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