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Congo-Kinshasa

Jean-Pierre Bemba

Date of Birth: 4 November 1962


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A rocky electoral road

Its leader Jean-Pierre Bemba is on trial in the Hague accused of atrocities in Central African Republic in 2002-03...


Prison politics

Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo is not letting his status as a prisoner on trial at the International Criminal Court get in the way of standing in the presidential election set for 28 November...


Bad fences, bad neighbours

Angola helped the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila to power in Kinshasa in 1997 and then supported his son President Joseph Kabila against his rival Jean-Pierre Bemba in 2007...


Election express

Its Secretary General François Mwamba Tshishimbi wants to take over the leadership from Jean-Pierre Bemba whose war crimes trial drags on in the Hague...


Real bullets, phoney coup

The apparent targets were people from Equateur Province the home base of Kabila’s main rival at the 2006 presidential election Jean-Pierre Bemba and his Mouvement de libération du Congo...


Kabila again

The main opposition party Jean-Pierre Bemba’s Mouvement de libération du Congo (MLC) supported by several local non-governmental organisations claims that the serving President (and candidate) Joseph Kabila will unlawfully prolong his time in office which is due to end on 6 December 2011...


Vital Kamerhe

Now Kamerhe hopes to be selected as presidential candidate of the Mouvement de Libération du Congo whose leader Jean-Pierre Bemba is awaiting trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity...


Amid the chaos, a sort of vote

It was Patassé who called in – against Bozizé – fighters from the Mouvement de libération du Congo under Jean-Pierre Bemba who now faces trial at the International Criminal Court for the brutalities they are said to have inflicted...


Runners and frontrunners

They are Kabila’s PPRD Jean-Pierre Bemba’s Mouvement pour la libération du Congo (MLC) and the Parti lumumbiste unifié led by Antoine Gizenga and Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito...


Kigali wins another round of the blame game

To embarrass the UN Kinshasa says the draft should also have mentioned crimes committed by UN troops against Congolese civilians or those (allegedly including cannibalism) by Jean-Pierre Bemba’s Armée de libération du Congo (ALC) in Ituri in 2002 – or even the ‘genocide’ of 3...


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