Have you ever had a specialbreak through day you will never forget not only because of the achievement or mile but rather how things went down in the event of the day?If you have then youmight relate to the latest new president in Africa.
Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi sworn in on Thursday shocked many after taking ill during his inaugural address briefly before returning to the stage to complete his speech.
Tshisekedi said he was exhausted by the long election process and the emotion of the occasion.
Tshisekedi, wearing a blue suit and dark glasses, took the oath of office before a crowd of thousands of cheering supporters, government officials and foreign ambassadors. He was inaugurated at Congo’s National Palace on .
Intriguing though, in a sign of lingering doubts about the vote’s credibility, Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta was the only foreign head of state present.
Congolese opposition activists fought for years to get Joseph Kabila to do something uncommon among African authoritarians: obey term limits and step down.
When he begrudgingly agreed last August, they were thrilled. Even though he’d delayed elections again and again, extending his rule to 18 years, his exit created the possibility of Congo’s first democratic transfer of power.