Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba

But they also knew the Kasaïs were the fiefdom of these presidents' principal political opponent Etienne Tshisekedi President Félix Tshisekedi's father who was from Kasaï Central and his party the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS)...

Etienne Tshisekedi died in February 2017 and President Joseph Kabila whose five-year presidential mandate had expired in 2016 sought to exploit his death to weaken the UDPS and Kasaïan opposition in general (AC Vol 58 No 4 Leader's demise imperils deal)...

He was close to Tshisekedi's father Etienne Tshisekedi who was a thorn in the side of every Congolese president from the 1980s until his death in 2017 and now enjoys good relations with Tshisekedi fils...

Kankonde spent much of his life in exile in Belgium and was close to the President's father Étienne Tshisekedi...

Two years and four months after the old man passed away the body of veteran Congolese politician Étienne Tshisekedi finally returned from Brussels to Congo-Kinshasa on 30 May...

Étienne Tshisekedi was a devout Catholic but the President periodically attends a church that is a member of the ECC...

Tshisekedi was born in Kinshasa but his famous father Etienne Tshisekedi was a Luba from Kasaï Central...

Félix Tshisekedi who inherited the mantle of the UDPS when his father Etienne Tshisekedi died in 2017 will make a pliant president says insiders...

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 62-year-old was a confidant of the late Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba the towering figure of opposition politics who died in February and a Deputy Secretary General of his Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS; AC Vol 58 No 4 Leader's demise imperils deal)...

The 62-year-old was a confidant of the late Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba the towering figure of opposition politics who died in February and a Deputy Secretary General of his Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS; AC Vol 58 No 4 Leader's demise imperils deal)...

Most of the coalition has lined up behind Etienne Tshisekedi's son Félix Tshisekedi and Pierre Lumbi Okongo President of the G-7 a group of seven political parties which left the MP in September 2015 and backs Moïse Katumbi Chapwe a one-time Kabila ally and former Governor of Katanga to become the next president...

'Bruno was close to Etienne Tshisekedi as an individual but very distant from the rest ' said one UDPS official...

The death in Brussels on 1 February of the historic charismatic opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 84 is a stark blow to the Congolese peace process...

The death in Brussels on 1 February of the historic charismatic opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 84 is a stark blow to the Congolese peace process...

Badibanga is a dissident from the main opposition party the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social having fallen foul of veteran party boss Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba in 2011 after he ordered UDPS candidates elected to Parliament not to take their seats...

Badibanga is a dissident from the main opposition party the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social having fallen foul of veteran party boss Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba in 2011 after he ordered UDPS candidates elected to Parliament not to take their seats...