Lambert Mende (Lambert Mende Omalanga)

The adhesion to the USN of former FCC stalwarts such as Lambert Mende Kabila's former spokesperson and a man notorious for spinning and defending any position no matter how outrageous has also not inspired confidence (AC Vol 60 No 11 A shake-up takes shape)...

On 19 May police raided the house of the hardline Kabilist and former Information Minister Lambert Mende bundling him into a vehicle...

In other cases Kabilist ministers and ultra-loyalists such as former information minister Lambert Mende and Kabila's younger brother Zoe Kabila will probably ease into governorships in their respective strongholds of Sankuru and Tanganyika...

Those close to the negotiations between Tshisekedi's team and the Information Minister Lambert Mende suggest that Kabila would retain extensive powers over security and mining contracts under a Tshisekedi presidency...

On 4 January Information Minister Lambert Mende summoned the international media to forbid them from reporting results ahead of CENI's announcement...

Information minister Lambert Mende promised Kabila would have announced a 'dauphin' or chosen heir by July and when the deadline slipped speculation increased that Kabila would stay on...

Information Minister Lambert Mende chimed in to question whether elections could possibly take place 'in a situation of war'...

Kabila's foghorns such as Communications Minister Lambert Mende and Rural Development Minister Justin Bitakwira will paint any low turnout however tortuously as proof of the President's popularity...

The government spokesperson and minister Lambert Mende told the media on 29 March two days after the discovery of Sharp and Catalán's corpses in a shallow grave that Tshintela's body was also found...

In mid-July government media supremo Lambert Mende decreed that Kinshasa-based foreign journalists would need his written permission to travel outside the capital...