Vital Kamerhe

Leader of the Union pour la Nation Congolaise (UNC) and presidential Chief of Staff Vital Kamerhe has an interesting year ahead of him...

Tshisekedi's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social is the main party in CACH with Vital Kamerhe's Union pour la Nation Congolaise (UNC) the next largest in the coalition...

Three members of Kabuya's eight-strong cabinet are from Lamuka; another minister is from Vital Kamerhe's Union pour la nation congolaise (UNC) and a fifth Tharcisse Kabatusuila Mbuyamba from Tshisekedi's Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social...

The chief executives of Glencore and Barrick – Ivan Glasenberg and Mark Bristow – met Tshisekedi and his chief of staff Vital Kamerhe in Kinshasa to try to push for changes to the mining code...

News soon circulated that Vital Kamerhe Tshisekedi's running mate in the campaign and a former Kabila supporter and president of the National Assembly had rushed to Tshisekedi's aid at the podium when he collapsed...

Tshisekedi and his ally Vital Kamerhe had stoked suspicion when they broke after only a day an agreement struck in Geneva in November for the entire opposition to unite behind Fayulu sparking a bitter war of words and suspicion between their supporters (AC Vol 59 No 25 The Twelve Fixes of Christmas)...

A day later Felix Tshisekedi and Vital Kamerhe pulled out of the pact citing the furious reactions back home of the parties they lead – the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social  (UDPS) the largest opposition party which was founded in the early 1980s by Tshisekedi's father and the Union pour la nation congolaise (UNC) another major political player (AC Vol 58 No 11 Kabila thriving on chaos)...

They opted for Martin Fayulu an articulate national parliamentarian who can mobilise the Kinshasa street but the next day Félix Tshisekedi son of the late and perennial opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi pulled out quickly followed by former information minister Vital Kamerhe...

The Rassemblement a large coalition dominated by the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS) Congo's oldest opposition party and the G-7 alliance which supports the presidential aspirations of the exiled former Governor of Katanga Moïse Katumbi published a statement on 7 November identical to those issued by the Union pour la nation congolaise (UNC) led by Vital Kamerhe and the Mouvement de libération du Congo (MLC) of Jean-Pierre Bemba...

DisappointmentThe formation of the new government has been dispiriting for Vital Kamerhe who finished third behind Kabila and Tshisekedi in the 2011 presidential election and his Union pour la nation congolaise...