Vol 59 No 23 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 58 No 24 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 58 No 11 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 58 No 3 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
A big loser is former Information Minister Vital Kamerhe Lwa Kanyiginyi Nkingi a heavyweight from South Kivu who pulled his Union pour la nation congolaise and other opposition allies into the talks but was eventually rewarded with nothing...
Vol 57 No 24 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Badibanga's promotion came as a shock since Vital Kamerhe President of the Union pour la nation congolaise had led the opposition group in the negotiations which yielded the agreement with the regime and was assumed to be the frontrunner for the premiership...
Vol 57 No 21 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
For example Vital Kamerhe was a confidant of Kabila's who left the President's Parti du peuple pour la reconstruction et la démocratie and finished well behind both him and Tshisekedi in the 2011 presidential election...
Vol 57 No 15 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
La Dynamique is a separate coalition of opposition parties of which Vital Kamerhe's Union pour la nation congolaise (UNC) and Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de libération du Congo (MLC) are the biggest...
Vol 57 No 8 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Katumbi has also been talking to Vital Kamerhe leader of the opposition Union pour la nation congolaise and another erstwhile ally of President Kabila...
Vol 56 No 22 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
'It was the same when UNC [Union pour la nation congolaise] leader Vital Kamerhe seemed to be offering Katumbi his endorsement...
Vol 56 No 12 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Other important parties such as Vital Kamerhe's Union pour la nation congolaise and the Mouvement de libération du Congo of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo whose trial at the International Criminal Court opens in September as well as many grass-root UDPS members oppose any coalition with Kabila that extends his tenure...