Jean-Marc Kabund

Tshisekedi has also recently ditched UDPS president Jean-Marc Kabund expelling him from the party on 29 January...

Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) interim president Jean-Marc Kabund has alleged that Jean-Pierre Bemba and Moïse Katumbi two veteran opposition leaders who have recently joined the USN after much hesitation had demanded the posts of prime minister and National Assembly president respectively and that in doing so they were trying to destroy the USN (AC Vol 61 No 5 Clash of the kings)...

Tshisekedi took some tension out of the encounter by agreeing to stop sending his spokesman Jean-Marc Kabund to talk to Kabila on his behalf...

Instead spokesman Jean-Marc Kabund a person he considers too junior for the job was being sent to Kabila's private farm in Kingakati near Kinshasa...

Speculation about a back-room deal between Tshisekedi and Kabila had grown after Tshisekedi's spokesperson Jean-Marc Kabund announced on 7 January that the two men had 'an interest in meeting to prepare for the peaceful and civilised transfer of power'...

With honourable exceptions such as Martin Fayulu and Jean-Marc Kabund its leaders prefer pontificating in Washington DC New York and the capitals of Europe than doing the hard work of mobilising the immiserated Congolese people...

Jean-Marc Kabund of the UDPS described the US and European response as a 'distraction' and urged party cadres not 'to fall into their trap'...

UDPS Secretary General Jean-Marc Kabund wa Kabund agreed that all funeral costs should be picked up by the state but that Tshisekedi's body would not be returned to Kinshasa until a new government was formed...

The UDPS Secretary General Jean-Marc Kabund wa Kabund labelled Badibanga's appointment a 'non-event'...