Moïse Katumbi Chapwe

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)...

The return to Congo-Kinshasa after three years in exile of Moïse Katumbi the former Governor of Katanga is set to shake up national politics even as ex-President Joseph Kabila retains a vice-like grip on state institutions and the military...

The deal with Tsishekedi outflanked Fayulu and his backers whom Kabila greatly feared Moïse Katumbi Jean-Pierre Bemba and Mbusa Nyamwisi...