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[caption id="attachment_53939" align="alignleft" width="660"] Martin Fayulu (centre) is better known as an entrepreneur than as an opposition leader[/caption]
Opposition leaders in the DR Congo have chosen the businessman Martin Fayulu as their candidate in December's much-postponed presidential election.
He will be up against the governing coalition's pick, former interior minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary. The outgoing president, Joseph Kabila, is not seeking re-election. He refused to leave office after his term ended in 2016 and officials said at the time it was too dangerous to call an election. Opposition groups, however, saw it as a ploy by Mr Kabila to extend his time in office. The selection of 61-year-old Martin Fayulu came after days of talks between seven opposition leaders in the Swiss city of Geneva. Voters go the polls in DR Congo on 23 December.