Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba

Two big opposition parties Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social and Joseph Olengankhoy's Forces Novatrices de l'Union Sacrée stayed away...

Veteran Kasai politician Etienne Tshisekedi accuses Michel of trying to hijack the Inter-Congolese Dialogue...

The main groups that do not want foreign troops to leave soon are Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) and the RCD-Goma which point out that the Lusaka Agreement spoke of the 'orderly' withdrawal of foreign troops three months after the conclusion of the dialogue which would mean March 2002 at the earliest...

Jean-Pierre Bemba's Front de Libération du Congo (FLC) whose alliance with Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) and others is called the Union des Forces pour le Respect Intégral des Accords de Lusaka also suspects that neither Kabila nor the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie (RCD)-Goma really wants their own foreign military backers to leave...

Jean-Pierre Bemba's Front de Libération du Congo (FLC) whose alliance with Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) and others is called the Union des Forces pour le Respect Intégral des Accords de Lusaka also suspects that neither Kabila nor the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie (RCD)-Goma really wants their own foreign military backers to leave...

Genuine parties include: Etienne Tshisekedi's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS); Joseph Olenghankoy's Forces Novatrices pour l'Union et la Solidarité (Fonus); Arthur Zahidi N'Goma's Forces du Futur; Catherine Nzuzi wa Mbombo's Mouvement Populaire pour la Révolution (MPR-fait privé); Antoine Gizenga's Parti Lumumbiste Unifié (Palu); François Tolenga Lumumba's Mouvement National du Congo-Lumumba (MNC-L); Gabriel Kyungu wa Kumwanza's Union des Fédéralistes et des Républicains Indépendants (UFERI-Katanga); André Bo-Boliko's Parti Démocratique et Social Chrétien (PDSC); Raymond Tshibanda's Parti Libéral Démocrate Chrétien (PLDC)...

This is reminiscent of the late Zaïrean President Mobutu Sese Seko who in 1992 promoted his former arch-enemy Nguza Karl-i-Bond to harass Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba and the Kasaï-Luba from the rear...

This is reminiscent of the late Zaïrean President Mobutu Sese Seko who in 1992 promoted his former arch-enemy Nguza Karl-i-Bond to harass Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba and the Kasaï-Luba from the rear...

Leading signatories of the letter are Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UPPS) Catherine Nzuzi wa Bombo of the Mobutist 'Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution-fait privé' Joseph Olenghankoy of the 'Forces Novatrices de l'Union Sacrée' and François Lumumba of the Mouvement National Congolais-Lumumba...

Leading signatories of the letter are Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UPPS) Catherine Nzuzi wa Bombo of the Mobutist 'Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution-fait privé' Joseph Olenghankoy of the 'Forces Novatrices de l'Union Sacrée' and François Lumumba of the Mouvement National Congolais-Lumumba...

The inter-Congolese dialogue will not work unless Joseph Kabila agrees to reactivate the political parties - but when Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social came home from exile on 23 April the thousands who greeted him at the airport were promptly driven off by Kinshasa's security forces...

The main leaders of the unarmed opposition - Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) at present in Brussels and the coalition Forces Démocratiques et Sociales de l'Opposition Plurielle - have openly approached Bemba's MLC to talk about dialogue...

The armed rebels did not show up nor did the followers of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social or Albert Mpeti's Forces Politiques et Sociales de l'Opposition Plurielle...