Vol 48 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
The presidential runner-up Jean-Pierre Bemba of the Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) has reluctantly accepted defeat and said he will stand as senator for Kinshasa; his support is strong in the capital...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
Marie-Thérèse Nlandu Mpolo-Nene a Kinshasa lawyer is a member of Jean-Pierre Bemba’s Union pour la Nation coalition...
Vol 47 No 23 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The streets of Kinshasa were eerily quiet for hours on 15 November after the Commission Electorale Indépendente (CEI) had announced that Joseph Kabila had won the second round of the elections with 58% against his rival Jean-Pierre Bemba's 42%...
Vol 47 No 19 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Tensions are rising again following the burning down on 18 September of presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba's main propaganda outlets the studios of Canal Congo Télévision Canal Kin TV and Radio Liberté in Kinshasa...
Not around Jean-Pierre Bemba but around his objectives...
Vol 47 No 17 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Instead there will be a run-off between Joseph Kabila (45 per cent) and Jean-Pierre Bemba (20 per cent) on 29 October...
Vol 47 No 17 |
- SUDAN
- UGANDA
From the beginning the Ugandan side has stressed it wants to keep the military option open a point reaffirmed by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni last week when he said that Congo's President Joseph Kabila and Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba (both awaiting election results) had agreed in principle to take military action against LRA positions in Congo if talks fail...
Vol 47 No 16 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Two figures - President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba - are dominating Congolese politics after the 30 July elections which have been hailed as a success by United Nations (UN) and the United States' Carter Center despite huge organisational problems...
Vol 47 No 15 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Kabila's three vice-presidents Azarias Ruberwa (RCD) Jean-Pierre Bemba (MLC) and Arthur Z'Ahidi Ngoma (Future Forces) had realised that the UDPS delegation was demanding in effect that the present transitional government be replaced - meaning that they could lose their jobs - and they cut the discussions short...
Vol 47 No 15 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The AMP spokesman is Olivier Kamitatu former National Assembly chairman and former Secretary General of the Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) of Kabila's main rival Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba...
Jean-Pierre Bemba 44 leader of the ex-rebel and Ugandan-backed MLC is a businessman born in Bokada (Equateur) a graduate of the Brussels Institut Catholique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (ICHEC) and currently Vice-President in charge of economic affairs...
Vol 47 No 13 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
On 25 April the President's guards exchanged shots with Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba's guards; he has 500 in Kinshasa and 1 000 more nearby...