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| New government formed in DR Congo | New government formed in DR Congo |
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| A new government has been announced in the Democratic Republic of Congo after last year's landmark elections. | A new government has been announced in the Democratic Republic of Congo after last year's landmark elections. |
| Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga - appointed in December by President Joseph Kabila - has named a cabinet consisting mostly of Kabila supporters. | Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga - appointed in December by President Joseph Kabila - has named a cabinet consisting mostly of Kabila supporters. |
| Former rebel leader Mbusa Nyamwisi gets the foreign ministry, Denis Kalume remains interior minister and Nzanga Mobutu is the new agriculture minister. | Former rebel leader Mbusa Nyamwisi gets the foreign ministry, Denis Kalume remains interior minister and Nzanga Mobutu is the new agriculture minister. |
| The government faces a country ravaged by years of misrule and conflict. | The government faces a country ravaged by years of misrule and conflict. |
| Last October's run-off presidential election was the first democratic poll in DR Congo since independence in 1960. | Last October's run-off presidential election was the first democratic poll in DR Congo since independence in 1960. |
| Mr Kabila saw off challenger Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former rebel leader, in what international observers considered generally free and fair elections. | Mr Kabila saw off challenger Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former rebel leader, in what international observers considered generally free and fair elections. |
| Riots | Riots |
| After weeks of delay in announcing the new administration, it comprises a small team of six state ministers and a larger cabinet of 54 ministers and vice-ministers. | |
| Under a 2002 deal to end the five-year DR Congo conflict, a power-sharing government, including the former rebel leaders, was set up. | |
| Joseph Kabila is DR Congo's first freely elected leader in 40 yearsBut Mr Kabila's supporters argued that his election victory gave him and his allies a mandate to govern alone. | |
| Mr Gizenga, 81, promised to support Mr Kabila's bid for the presidency after he came third in the first round of the presidential election in July. | |
| Mr Mobutu, son of former ruler Mobutu Sese Seko, also told his supporters to back Mr Kabila after he came fourth. | |
| In terms of protocol, he is number two, after Mr Gizenga. | |
| No-one from the former rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) was appointed to the cabinet, after its presidential candidate Azarias Ruberwa, failed to get many votes. | |
| The BBC's Arnaud Zajtman in the capital, Kinshasa, says there are many new faces in the cabinet, as many heavyweights from the Kabila regime were elected to parliament. | |
| The election was supported by the UN's largest peacekeeping contingent - some 17,000 soldiers. | The election was supported by the UN's largest peacekeeping contingent - some 17,000 soldiers. |
| Support for Mr Kabila was greatest in the east of the country while suspicion of him remains in the west. | Support for Mr Kabila was greatest in the east of the country while suspicion of him remains in the west. |
| Some 75 people died in rioting last week in several western towns after supporters of Mr Bemba took to the streets to protest against results from provincial elections. |