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Cyril Belaud

Cyril Belaud is an AFP journalist covering East Africa and the Horn of Africa.

Felix Tshisekedi (Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images)

DRC court confirms Tshisekedi winner of disputed presidential election

Announcing the final results of the much-delayed poll, the Constitutional Court said Tshisekedi had won by a simple majority

Tshisekedi was credited with 38.57% of the vote, against 34.8% for Martin Fayulu, according to the provisional results. (Caroline Thirion/AFP/Getty Images)

DRC court to examine election appeal from Tuesday

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Constitutional Court said it would start hearing on Tuesday an appeal against the presidential election results

Song and dance: Supporters of presidential candidate Felix Tshisekedi welcome the announcement of the provisional results of the presidential election. (Caroline Thirion/AFP)

A Tshisekedi finally at DRC’s helm

But there are fears that Felix has been co-opted by Joseph Kabila, who controls the electoral commission

Felix Tshisekedi (Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images)

DRC’s Tshisekedi: Son, heir and president-elect

Since his father founded the UDPS in 1982, the party has served as an opposition mainstay in the DRC

On the far side of the path that Mars traces around the sun, but before the orbit of the gas giant Jupiter, we find our next goose: the asteroid belt. (German Aerospace Centre)

Book fair turns the page for literature in Somaliland

The book fair has been a key factor in Somaliland’s embrace of literature

Last straw: Saida Mousseh Mohammed Hassan

Somalia on the brink of famine

Once again, the lethal combination of drought and conflict is setting the course for a major crisis

British village still silent on shipwreck looting

A year on since a shipwreck off the English south coast, locals are still revelling in their wild days of frenzied pillaging. But they are keeping mum on who grabbed the best…

Experts battle disaster from stricken freighter

British experts battled on Monday to prevent an ecological disaster by offloading about 3Â 500 tonnes of fuel oil in a stricken container ship beached off the English south…

Rushdie remains critic of fundamentalist Islam

More than 17 years after Iran’s late spiritual leader Ruhollah Khomeini launched a fatwa against him, British writer Salman Rushdie remains firm in his criticism of…