(PHOTO: Etienne Tshisekedi and wife Maman Marthe Kasalu stumping at the Stade des Martyrs in Kinshasa, Tuesday August 9, 2011)
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Kinshasa daily tabloid La Prospérité published today a press release issued on January 30 by Joseph Kapika, UDPS spokesman, announcing that opposition leader and self-proclaimed DRC president Etienne Tshisekedi is about to embark on a fortnight private "prayer and work visit" to Washington, DC.
The press release doesn't mention the names of those who've extended the invitation to the eighty-one-year-old mercurial pol, the tabloid notes.
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