Jean-Pierre Bemba

Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba of the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo took the economy superministry where he has to resurrect and reintegrate the moribund economy stabilise state revenues and answer the IMF's calls...

Jean-Pierre Bemba leads the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo backed by Uganda...

Sewing up the hierarchy The top five government jobs are sewn up: President (since 26 January 2001) Joseph Kabila; the Vice-Presidents: Arthur Zahidi N'goma (civilian opposition); Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi (government); Jean-Pierre Bemba (Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo); Azarias Ruberwa (Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma)...

His latest offence was to form an alliance with Jean-Pierre Bemba leader of the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo and a bitter opponent of both Congo-Kinshasa's President Joseph Kabila and President Idriss Déby of Chad...

Yet there is agreement of sorts on the four vice-presidents who are to understudy Kabila: Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi Tumba Futa Bingolo (government); Jean-Pierre Bemba (Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo); Azarias Ruberwa (RCD-Goma); Arthur Zahidi N'Goma (non-armed opposition)...

The Paris-based human rights movement the Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme welcomed President Ange-Félix Patassé to Paris by bringing a war crimes case at the International Criminal Court against him as well as Chadian former rebel Abdoulaye Miskine and Congo-Kinshasa rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba...

The two main rebel organisations will each nominate a vice-president - probably Jean-Pierre Bemba of the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo (MLC supported by Uganda) to run the economic and financial commission; and Azarias Ruberwa of the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie (RCD-Goma supported by Rwanda) to run the political commission...

Other fights involve breakaway militias: the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-National (RCD-National) under Roger Lumbala split from the pro-Rwandan Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma (RCD-Goma); allied with Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) it erodes territory controlled by the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Mouvement de Libération (RCD-ML) of Mbusa Nyamwisi which is now allied to the Kinshasa government...

Bindoumi cited a taped telephone conversation where Démafouth was allegedly asking Congo-Kinshasa rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba for troops to help him take power in Bangui...

They disagree over the respective powers of Kabila as transitional President and of his designated Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Bemba who says he will come to Kinshasa only if he can bring 1 500 of his men...