Vital Kamerhe

Four unidentified armed men attacked a parliamentary candidate for Vital Kamerhe's Union pour la nation congolaise (UNC) Dieudonné Lowa Opombo at his home in Kinshasa with knives and hammers then dragged him to a waiting jeep...

On 29 November the day after polling leading candidates Léon Kengo wa Dondo Vital Kamerhe Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi and Adam Bombole demanded the cancellation of the results...

He claimed to be negotiating with Kengo Vital Kamerhe of the Union pour la nation congolaise and Jean-Pierre Bemba of the Mouvement de libération du Congo who is on trial before the International Criminal Court in the Hague (AC Vol 52 No 19 A rocky electoral road)...

The other presidential candidates include Vital Kamerhe former Assembly President and Prime Minister under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko and Léon Lobitsch Kengo wa Dondo Senate President and another of Mobutu's Prime Ministers...

Kabila will hope Bemba’s candidacy if allowed will inconvenience more threatening candidates such as the veteran leader of the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba and the former National Assembly Speaker Vital Kamerhe...

Luanda is said to favour Vital Kamerhe a former ally of Joseph Kabila’s and the Honorary President of the National Assembly founder and leader of the Union pour la nation congolaise who served under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent Kabila...

A problem for Kabila is that the loss of Katumbi who is also popular in relatively prosperous provinces such as Bas-Congo which are also anxious to get their hands on that 40% of tax revenue coincides with the defection to the opposition of Vital Kamerhe the former parliamentary Speaker...

Meanwhile in his other strongholds of North and South Kivu his position is undermined by his falling out with Vital Kamerhe (AC Vol 50 No 7) formerly President of the National Assembly...

46% of the presidential vote in 2006; and former Assembly President Vital Kamerhe...

Taking his cue from other parties in the region Vital Kamerhe will use his opposition to China’s US$6 billion ore-for-infrastructure contract as a major plank of his campaign...