Felix Tshisekedi won a second term as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo in a landslide, according to provisional results of an election that opposition leaders have dismissed as a sham. The results declared by the country's electoral commission on Sunday showed that Mr Tshisekedi had won 73 per cent of the vote in the single-round presidential ballot. "I have been re-elected president of all Congolese," Mr Tshisekedi, dressed in a white shirt and cap, told cheering supporters. Mr Tshisekedi, 60, first came to power in January 2019 after a disputed election that many observers said he had lost. The US called for peaceful and transparent resolution of any election disputes after Mr Tshisekedi was declared the winner.

Source: Ethiopian News January 01, 2024 18:08 UTC