Moïse Katumbi Chapwe

Kabila’s plan to get his younger brother, Zoé, appointed Governor instead of the popular incumbent, Moïse Katumbi Chapwe, is meeting stiff resistance...

Kabila’s plan to get his younger brother, Zoé, appointed Governor instead of the popular incumbent, Moïse Katumbi Chapwe, is meeting stiff resistance...

This failure to deliver is the reason why Moïse Katumbi Chapwe, Katanga’s flamboyant Governor and owner of star football team TP Mazembe, says he will resign from political life when his term of office runs out in 2012...

This failure to deliver is the reason why Moïse Katumbi Chapwe, Katanga’s flamboyant Governor and owner of star football team TP Mazembe, says he will resign from political life when his term of office runs out in 2012...

The uncertainty may help explain the odd behaviour of Katanga’s Governor, Moïse Katumbi, after the airport raid...

The charismatic provincial governor, Moïse Katumbi Chapwe, is caught in the middle, trying to boost the hopes of the Katangans and to remain loyal to Kabila...

The charismatic provincial governor, Moïse Katumbi Chapwe, is caught in the middle, trying to boost the hopes of the Katangans and to remain loyal to Kabila...

Katanga Governor Moïse Katumbi Chapwe is the younger and poorer brother of Raphaël Soriano Katebe Katoto, who dreamed of the presidency in 2002 after Laurent Kabila’s assassination and now contemplates leaving his exile in a Belgian mansion to return to Congo...

Katanga Governor Moïse Katumbi Chapwe is the younger and poorer brother of Raphaël Soriano Katebe Katoto, who dreamed of the presidency in 2002 after Laurent Kabila’s assassination and now contemplates leaving his exile in a Belgian mansion to return to Congo...

* Moïse Katumbi, Governor of Katanga and key election fundraiser, was once interested in national leadership like his brother Raphaël Soriano Katebe, who tried for the presidency in 2002...

Congolese businessman Raphael Soriano (based in Belgium), a half-brother of Katanga Governor Moïse Katumbi, is cited as part of Nkunda's network in 2008, as well as Gendarme Rwema, a Congolese businessman close to the CNDP and the Forces Républicaines Fédéralistes armed group...

Other significant candidates include the veteran oppositionist Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social; former Assembly President Vital Kamerhe, who left office in January 2009 after opposing the joint Congolese-Rwandan operation against the FDLR in Kivu; and Katanga Governor Moïse Katumbi, who is popular on his home turf and might make alliances elsewhere...

Their departure has produced angry reactions from local workers and Moise Katumbi, the Governor of Katanga...

The Task Force has let some big fish escape, most dramatically when the government dropped corruption charges against Moise Katumbi, Governor of Congo-Kinshasa's Katanga Province...