Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba

To avoid this scenario Reverend Daniel Ngoy Mulunda the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission who is a Katangan relative of Kabila’s and a member of his Parti du peuple pour la reconstruction et le développement has been holding talks with one of the main opposition figures the veteran President of the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social Etienne Tshisekedi...

There are three other serious runners: the veteran Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba; Oscar Kashala Lukumuenda a businessman who took just 3...

There are three other serious runners: the veteran Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba; Oscar Kashala Lukumuenda a businessman who took just 3...

Tshisekedi’s triumphal return Etienne Tshisekedi returned to Kinshasa in triumph on 8 December greeted (it is claimed) by a million supporters on his route home from the airport...

In December rattling his sabre for 2011 elections veteran oppositionist Etienne Tshisekedi told Radio France International that the Chinese presence in Congo-Kinshasa was uninvited and Chinese money ‘does not go to so-called road construction but to the detriment of everything that is in the national interest...

Opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba accuses Kabila of treating his countrymen like animals...

Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba from Kasai the veteran leader of the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS) also declared in August from Brussels where he is receiving medical attention...

Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba from Kasai the veteran leader of the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS) also declared in August from Brussels where he is receiving medical attention...

There Kabila’s popularity is far outdone by that of the old and ailing chief of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba who has blamed Miba’s troubles on interference and financial raids from Kinshasa...

There Kabila’s popularity is far outdone by that of the old and ailing chief of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba who has blamed Miba’s troubles on interference and financial raids from Kinshasa...

If the opposition Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social stands for election there it should sweep the board despite its splits and the sickness of its leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba...

If the opposition Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social stands for election there it should sweep the board despite its splits and the sickness of its leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba...

Other significant candidates include the veteran oppositionist Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social; former Assembly President Vital Kamerhe who left office in January 2009 after opposing the joint Congolese-Rwandan operation against the FDLR in Kivu; and Katanga Governor Moïse Katumbi who is popular on his home turf and might make alliances elsewhere...

The favourite at present is the veteran Etienne Tshisekedi from Kasai whose Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social boycotted the 2006 elections so is not represented in parliament...

The once-credible Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social led by Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba risks boycotting itself into obsolescence despite strong support bases in Kasai and Kinshasa...