Felix Tshisekedi

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Role	Chief of state: President Felix TSHISEKEDI (since 20 January 2024)
Country	DR Congo
Office
Position	President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Party	Union for Democracy and Social Progress
Personal details
Born	13 June 1963
Birthplace	Kinshasa
Spouse	Denise Nyakeru Tshisekedi
Occupation	politician
This archive
Archived items	66
As of	2026-08-20

Felix Tshisekedi as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

Situation as of 2026-08-20

Most recent archived item: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah - reported by US State Department

Most recent archived item: US State Department

This page lists 12 archived headlines published between 2026-02-27 and 2026-08-20. It reflects what these feeds reported in that window, not everything that happened.

Biography

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Biography

Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo (French: [feliks ɑ̃twan tʃisekedi tʃilombo]; born 13 June 1963) is a Congolese politician who is the fifth president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, serving since 2019. He was the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), the DRC's oldest and largest party, succeeding his dead father Étienne Tshisekedi in that role, a three-time Prime Minister of Zaire and opposition leader during the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko. Tshisekedi was the UDPS party's candidate for president in the December 2018 general election, which he was awarded, after accusations of irregularities from several election monitoring organisations and other opposition parties. The Constitutional Court of the DRC upheld his victory after another opposition politician, Martin Fayulu, challenged the result, and Tshisekedi has been accused of making a deal with his predecessor, Joseph Kabila. The election marked the first peaceful transition of power since the DRC's independence from Belgium in 1960. Since the Common Front for Congo (FCC) coalition, which is aligned with Kabila, still controlled the parliament and provincial governorships, Tshisekedi's ability to govern or appoint a new Prime Minister was limited for the first six months of his term. He named his coalition partner and political heavyweight, Vital Kamerhe, as his Chief of Cabinet, at first having designated him prime minister and not having the parliamentary support to have him successfully appointed. In May 2019, he reached a deal with the parliament's Kabila-aligned majority to appoint Sylvestre Ilunga prime minister. [1]

Early Life

Tshisekedi, a member of the Luba ethnic group, was born in Kinshasa on 13 June 1963 to mother Marthe and father Étienne Tshisekedi, who served as Prime Minister of Zaire in the 1990s. He had a comfortable life as a youth in the capital, but when his father created the UDPS in the early 1980s, publicly opposing Mobutu, Félix was forced to accompany him into house arrest in his native village in central Kasaï. This put his studies on hold. In 1985, Mobutu allowed him, his mother, and his brothers to leave Kasaï. [2]

Career

In late 2008, Tshisekedi was named the UDPS National Secretary for external relations. In November 2011, he obtained a seat in the National Assembly, representing the city of Mbuji Mayi in Kasai-Oriental province. He did not take his seat, citing a fraudulent election, and his mandate was invalidated for "absenteeism". In May 2013, he refused a position of rapporteur at the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), saying that he did not want to put his political career on hold as CENI's article 17 excludes membership for those who are members of a political formation. In October 2016, Tshisekedi became vice secretary general of the UDPS. On 31 March 2018, he was elected to lead the UDPS, after his father's death on 1 February 2017. The same day, the UDPS nominated him for president in the December 2018 general election. On 10 January 2019, it was announced that Tshisekedi had won the presidency of the DRC in the December 2018 election. [3]

Reporting

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Other archived reporting

[4] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
[5] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
[6] 2026-08-13 - haberler.com: İsrailden Lübnana Uzun Süreli Konuşlanma Talimatı
[7] 2026-08-13 - outlet not recorded: Jus Ad Bellum: Syllabus Supplements
[8] 2026-08-05 - outlet not recorded: Best Approach to Mideast Peace: U.S.-Backed Trilateral Framework
[9] 2026-07-30 - outlet not recorded: Celebrating LA’s Culinary Visionaries
[10] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
[11] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
[12] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
[13] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
[14] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
[15] 2026-06-14 - outlet not recorded: Meeks Welcomes Iran Diplomacy, But Demands Details
...and 54 more not listed here.

See also: DR Congo

Publication history

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rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
rev 2, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
rev 3, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

Sources

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How this page is made

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