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While Tshisekedi was delivering his inaugural speech, he briefly stopped, saying during a live TV show, "I do not feel well," according to a Reuters video feed.
Tshisekedi succeeds incumbent President Joseph Kabila during the first peaceful transfer of power in the country's history. Tshiskedi is only the fifth president of the Congo since his independence from Belgium in 1960.
The inauguration took place at the Nation's Palace, seat of the presidency, in the presence of Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga, and other country dignitaries neighbors.
The election of Tshisekedi was surrounded by controversy and the surprise was generalized after the announcement by the country's electoral commission of his victory.
Another leader of the opposition, Martin Fayulu, was to be largely victorious. He categorically rejected the result and called the winner to be "the person who really was the choice of our people".
The Catholic Church of Congo also rejected the results of the presidential election of the Central African nation, saying that it did not match the data collected by its observers.
Fayulu appealed to the court to order a recount, but the Constitutional Court dismissed his appeal and declared Tshisekedi the winner.
Kabila, while running a nation rich in diamond, gold and tantalum deposits, had accumulated a wealth of wealth. According to the United Nations, his regime has transferred the ownership of at least $ 5 billion of badets from the state mining sector to private companies under his control.
The country's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, was executed by a firing squad in 1961 and military dictator Mobutu Sese Seko came to power by a coup d'etat.
After three decades of iron fist rule, Mobutu was overthrown in 1997 by rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila, who was murdered almost four years later. Joseph Kabila inherited his father's presidency.
Tshisekedi also comes from a historical political context. His father, Stephen Tshisekedi, founded the Union for Democracy and Social Progress, Congo's oldest and most important opposition party. Felix Tshisekedi took over following the death of his father in 2017.
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