Moïse Katumbi Chapwe

The third vice-prime minister is Minister of Foreign Affairs Christophe Lutundula of former Katanga governor Moïse Katumbi's Ensemble party...

Four of them hold vice-prime minister positions: President Félix Tshisekedi's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS); the Ensemble party of Moïse Katumbi governor of the mining hub of Katanga for eight years; ex-rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC); and former President Joseph Kabila's Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie (PPRD)...

Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) interim president Jean-Marc Kabund has alleged that Jean-Pierre Bemba and Moïse Katumbi two veteran opposition leaders who have recently joined the USN after much hesitation had demanded the posts of prime minister and National Assembly president respectively and that in doing so they were trying to destroy the USN (AC Vol 61 No 5 Clash of the kings)...

Tshisekedi initially had former Katangan governor Moïse Katumbi in mind for the role say sources but is now less enthusiastic after Katumbi apparently requested terms and conditions the President was not prepared to live with...

The consultations at the Palais de la Nation in Kinshasa's Gombe commune did attract some heavy-hitters – notably ex-Katanga governor Moïse Katumbi and ex-Vice-President and former International Criminal Court detainee Jean-Pierre Bemba...

The Lamuka coalition led by Fayulu and the former Vice-President and warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba along with former Katanga governor Moïse Katumbi might want to team up with Tshisekedi despite their anger at his betrayal of their electoral pact in 2018...

There are other serious contenders upon whom the Americans look favourably including Moïse Katumbi the former governor of Katanga who has his own strong ties with the AIPAC lobby...

That was an unfortunate example as Dokolo who is from Congo-Kinshasa and his associate Moïse Katumbi former governor of Katanga and driven from the country by Kabila had asked Tshisekedi to put pressure on the Angola government to relent in its campaign against Isabel dos Santos...

Governor Kabuya is supported strongly by André-Claudel Lubaya and Delly Sesanga two prominent National Assembly deputies from Kasaï Central who are part of the Lamuka grouping which is in turn part of Moïse Katumbi's Ensemble pour le changement coalition...

The return of Moïse Katumbi to a hero's welcome in the mining city of Lubumbashi on 20 May after a three-year absence is also shaking up Congolese politics (AC Vol 60 No 11 A shake-up takes shape)...

Also missing was Moïse Katumbi who returned to Belgium earlier in the month after his plane was allegedly twice refused permission to land in Goma intended as the next leg of a planned tour of the country (AC Vol 60 No 11 A shake-up takes shape)...