New govt formed in DR Congo
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.
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.
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.
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.
But 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 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.
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.
Mr Bemba was elected to the senate.