Augustin Katumba Mwanke

But most of the Katanga miners in the Fédération des Entreprises du Congo did nothing including Anvil Mining which extracts copper and silver at Dikulushi and one of whose veterans is President Joseph Kabila’s close advisor Augustin Katumba Mwanke...

Many suspect the long arm of Augustin Katumba Mwanke an advisor to President Joseph Kabila and a minister during his father Laurent-Désiré’s presidency who is known to be close to the Gécamines President (AC Vol 48 No 11 Dollars and mines)...

The Republican Guard is largely Katangese and prominent Katangans include Numbi Central Bank Governor Honoré Mulangu Pongola Attorney General Kabange and Augustin Katumba Mwanke known as the power behind the throne and skilled in getting big business deals signed off...

More likely their real target was not Muzito but Katumba Mwanke who maintains such elite access to the President that other politicians have grown increasingly frustrated...

* Augustin Katumba Mwanke hides from the public gaze but presides over most big business deals...

* Dan Gertler an Israeli magnate with mining petrol and banking interests throughout the country who works closely with Katumba Mwanke on commercial projects...

One of these lobbyists says a Congolese official is Augustin Katumba Mwanke a former Anvil manager now an MP and President of Kabila’s coalition the Alliance pour la Majorité Présidentielle (AMP)...

Mukasa is the uncle of Augustin Katumba Mwanke a powerful advisor to President Kabila who was named as corrupt by the 2002 United Nations Expert Panel on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources of Congo after which he was briefly sidelined by Kabila...

The much-criticised Finance Minister Athanase Matenda and advisor Katumba Mwanke hold on to their jobs despite repeated accusations by parliament and civil society...

Katumba Mwanke faces criminal charges in South Africa...

The government said it would revise certain rights granted to Anvil whose board has for some years included Augustin Katumba Mwanke now a member of Parliament and previously Governor of Katanga and an advisor to President Kabila...

We hear Augustin Katumba Mwanke played a key role in cutting the deal with China; formerly President Joseph Kabila's Minister of State he was forced out after being linked to corrupt contractual deals by UN investigators...

Previous tangles involve the Damseaux family Victor Kasongo and Augustin Katumba Mwanke and a series of presidential insiders...

Kasongo mai ntains a begrudging and ambivalent relationship with Kinshasa's other mining heavyweight Augustin Katumba Mwanke...

• Augustin Katumba Mwanke: born in 1963 in Kilwa Katanga Province...