For Congo's political opposition, the timing of Etienne Tshisekedi's death couldn't be worse. The vast Central African country is finely poised between progress and chaos.After the failure of ...

Congolese people in Belgium demonstrate with DRC flags and posters of opposition leader Étienne Tshisekedi following the re-election of Joseph Kabila in the country's 2011 elections, Antwerp ...

Congo's opposition icon Etienne Tshisekedi , who pushed for democratic reforms for decades in the vast Central African nation throughout dictatorship and civil war, has died, his political party said.

Etienne Tshisekedi, the 84-year old long-time opposition leader and force for political openness in Congo, died Wednesday in a hospital in Brussels, after suffering from a long-standing illness.

Opposition icon Etienne Tshisekedi, whose son is now Congo's president, was laid to rest Saturday in his homeland more than two years after he died during a political stalemate over the country's ...

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Tshisekedi became president in 2019 after emerging from the shadow of his father, who was one of Congo’s most population figures. The presidency eluded Etienne Tshisekedi, but his 2017 death ...

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