Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba

Etienne Tshisekedi's government has repeatedly said that personnel and military equipment intended for use in Cabo Delgado have been redeployed in eastern Congo-K over several years...

Félix Tshisekedi has failed to win over the capital unlike his father Étienne Tshisekedi the historic opponent of Mobutu Sese Seko...

Congo's new intelligence chief Daniel Lusadisu an acolyte of the president's father Étienne Tshisekedi also knew Malanga via Tshibangu...

But they also knew the Kasaïs were the fiefdom of these presidents' principal political opponent Etienne Tshisekedi President Félix Tshisekedi's father who was from Kasaï Central and his party the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS)...

Etienne Tshisekedi died in February 2017 and President Joseph Kabila whose five-year presidential mandate had expired in 2016 sought to exploit his death to weaken the UDPS and Kasaïan opposition in general (AC Vol 58 No 4 Leader's demise imperils deal)...

He was close to Tshisekedi's father Etienne Tshisekedi who was a thorn in the side of every Congolese president from the 1980s until his death in 2017 and now enjoys good relations with Tshisekedi fils...

Kankonde spent much of his life in exile in Belgium and was close to the President's father Étienne Tshisekedi...

Two years and four months after the old man passed away the body of veteran Congolese politician Étienne Tshisekedi finally returned from Brussels to Congo-Kinshasa on 30 May...

Étienne Tshisekedi was a devout Catholic but the President periodically attends a church that is a member of the ECC...

Tshisekedi was born in Kinshasa but his famous father Etienne Tshisekedi was a Luba from Kasaï Central...

Félix Tshisekedi who inherited the mantle of the UDPS when his father Etienne Tshisekedi died in 2017 will make a pliant president says insiders...

They opted for Martin Fayulu an articulate national parliamentarian who can mobilise the Kinshasa street but the next day Félix Tshisekedi son of the late and perennial opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi pulled out quickly followed by former information minister Vital Kamerhe...