Vital Kamerhe

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...

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...

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...

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...

Katumbi has also been talking to Vital Kamerhe leader of the opposition Union pour la nation congolaise and another erstwhile ally of President Kabila...

'It was the same when UNC [Union pour la nation congolaise] leader Vital Kamerhe seemed to be offering Katumbi his endorsement...

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...

Vital Kamerhe leader of the opposition Union pour la nation congolaise proclaimed the failure of the census bill a victory but some of his colleagues think this naïve...

Vital Kamerhe leader of the opposition Union pour la nation congolaise claimed victory in Kabila's first major defeat in Parliament since he came to power in 2001...

According to estimates by donors and by opposition leaders such as former National Assembly Speaker and leader of the Union pour la nation congolaise Vital Kamerhe it would take between one and three years to carry out a full census in a country with such poor infrastructure...