Congo government announced eight months after Tshisekedi won vote

Democratic Republic of Congo's outgoing President Joseph Kabila and his successor Felix Tshisekedi take part in the latter's inauguration ceremony in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo on January 24, 2019. [Reuters]

Congo’s prime minister announced a new government on Monday, eight months after President Felix Tshisekedi won an election, with around two thirds of posts going to allies of former president Joseph Kabila.

In the long-delayed election last December, Tshisekedi defeated a candidate officially backed by Kabila, whose own term limit was up, though opposition politicians said the result was rigged in a secret deal between Kabila’s and Tshisekedi’s camps.