Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba

The inter-Congolese dialogue will not work unless Joseph Kabila agrees to reactivate the political parties - but when Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social came home from exile on 23 April the thousands who greeted him at the airport were promptly driven off by Kinshasa's security forces...

The main leaders of the unarmed opposition - Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) at present in Brussels and the coalition Forces Démocratiques et Sociales de l'Opposition Plurielle - have openly approached Bemba's MLC to talk about dialogue...

The armed rebels did not show up nor did the followers of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social or Albert Mpeti's Forces Politiques et Sociales de l'Opposition Plurielle...

A key absentee from the Brussels meeting will be the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social whose leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba will join talks only after he has been reappointed prime minister...

Maliba has also long been at odds with Kasaï's most prominent opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba...

Asset transfer in Kasaï In Kasaï the power base of long time opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba the transfer of Miba's concessions has been given a political interpretation: that Kabila who comes from Katanga is trying to marginalise the politically and financially independent Kasaïens by transferring ownership and control of their main economic asset to an unaccountable private consortium which relies on Zimbabwean troops for security...

Kabila has little chance of attracting weighty opposition figures such as Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba into government at least before the all-party dialogue stipulated by the Lusaka peace process which the regime and other belligerents signed up to last July...

Kabila has little chance of attracting weighty opposition figures such as Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba into government at least before the all-party dialogue stipulated by the Lusaka peace process which the regime and other belligerents signed up to last July...

The opposition figure who still really matters is Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba the boss of Kasai...

The opposition figure who still really matters is Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba the boss of Kasai...

But the more independent opponents of Kabila saw things differently: Jean-Pierre Bemba's Uganda-backed Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo (MLC) said it was not worth turning up; Etienne Tshisekedi chief of the most powerful unarmed opposition movement preferred to make a trip to South Africa to see Nelson Mandela...

Ilunga seems to have no links with the anti-Kabila opposition in Kinshasa; he carries some clout in Katanga but not in Kasaï the territory of veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba...