Congo-Kinshasa: Felix Tshisekedi Is Declared Winner. Will He Fix Troubled DRC?

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The Democratic Republic of Congo is likely to go for a coalition government between the winner, Felix Tshisekedi's Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) and President Joseph Kabila's Common Front for Congo (FCC).

Even before the electoral commission made the surprise announcement that Mr Tshisekedi had won the election in the early hours of Thursday, the 55-year-old scion of the doyen of Congolese opposition Etienne Tshisekedi had been in talks with the Kabila side, making his opponents allege that the government had rigged the result in his favour.

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