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Congo-Kinshasa

Jean-Pierre Bemba

Date of Birth: 4 November 1962


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Bemba under arrest

At least a couple of months must pass before Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo can be transferred from Belgium where he was arrested on 24 May to prison in the Netherlands...


Father and son

Michel Senior’s visit to Kinshasa last July was very stormy: it followed his unsuccessful attempts to negotiate the return to Kinshasa of Kabila’s main opponent the leader of the Mouvement de Libération du Congo Jean-Pierre Bemba whom Michel had earlier met in Portugal...


A slow road to travel

Opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba whose own democratic credentials are minimal fled to Portugal last April after his militia clashed with Kabila’s Presidential Guard in Kinshasa...


Another chance for Asia

India’s involvement with Congo began in 2005 when Jean-Pierre Bemba then Vice-President and responsible for economic affairs attended an India- Africa Partnership conference in New Delhi organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry...


Kabila gets a rival

It is a strategic position as Kabila's hawks try to remove the parliamentary immunity of his main opponent Senator Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo...


Congo-Kinshasa's cumbersome experiment

Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) is the same except that it failed in its electoral bid last year; that failure was followed by street battles in Kinshasa in April and treason charges against Bemba who has fled the country...


Analysis

With the elections over President Joseph Kabila's government can use its legitimacy to crush all dissent not only oppositionist Jean-Pierre Bemba's armed guards but unarmed protestors too...


The bashing of Bemba

His troops decisively defeated the guard of Jean-Pierre Bemba who had lost last year's presidential election...


A frontier affair

Outgoing Foreign Minister Raymond Ramazani from Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) officially protested against an 'unacceptable' incursion to the Angolan Chargé d'Affaires in Kinshasa...


Winner takes (almost) all

Already in January the AMP had refused to admit Jean-Pierre Bemba's Union pour la Nation (UN) to any chairmanships of parliamentary committees thus reducing the chance that Bemba's people will cooperate in making the new institutions work...


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