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Death of Congo's 'Father of Democracy' Leaves Dangerous Vacuum
By Conor Gaffey On 2/3/17 at 1:37 PM

For Congo’s political opposition, the timing of Etienne Tshisekedi’s death couldn’t be worse.

The vast Central African country is finely poised between progress and chaos. After the failure of President Joseph Kabila’s government to organize elections scheduled for late 2016, an opposition coalition managed to hammer out a transition deal—agreed in principle on New Year’s Eve—that would see a national vote held before the end of 2017.

But with the death of Tshisekedi—a towering former prime minister who has tormented the past three regimes in Congo—that schedule may now be a pipedream.

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