Felix Tshisekedi, leader of the Congolese main opposition party, the Union for Democracy and Social Progress who was announced as the winner of the presidential elections gestures to his supporters at the party headquarters in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 10, 2019. REUTERS/Olivia Acland
KINSHASA (Reuters) - For most of his life, Felix Tshisekedi lived in the long shadow of his father Etienne, a firebrand veteran opposition leader in and out of prison and government over the course of a near 60-year career until his death in 2017.
After being declared the winner of Democratic Republic of Congo's presidential election in the wee hours of Thursday morning, the younger Tshisekedi looks set to achieve the lifetime goal that eluded his father.
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