Jean-Pierre Bemba

The wealthy former governor of Katanga supported Tshisekedi during much of his exile but ended up backing Fayulu along with Jean-Pierre Bemba a former vice-president and rebel leader...

Addressing students in Kinshasa on 6 June Fayulu said he would be at the airport to welcome back Jean-Pierre Bemba who is currently scheduled to return for his own grand tour on 23 June...

The deal with Tsishekedi outflanked Fayulu and his backers whom Kabila greatly feared Moïse Katumbi Jean-Pierre Bemba and Mbusa Nyamwisi...

Pierre Lumbi a prominent member of the Lamuka coalition backed by Fayulu Moïse Katumbi and Jean-Pierre Bemba said on television that Tshisekedi was 'mocking' the Congolese people...

Fayulu a former ExxonMobil executive is backed by former Katangan governor Moïse Katumbi former Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba and ex-foreign minister Mbusa Nyamwisi the latter two of whom are also notorious former rebel leaders...

All seemed well on 12 November when seven leaders gathered in Geneva including heavyweights Jean-Pierre Bemba and Moise Katumbi who have been barred from pursuing their own presidential aspirations and announced they had united behind Martin Fayulu a courageous political fighter who was nearly killed by the police two years ago (AC Vol 59 No 23 Militias flex their muscles)...

The leader of the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission (Monusco) Leila Zerrougui has endorsed the government's efforts to hold credible elections despite multiple concerns about electronic voting machines and the exclusion on dubious legal grounds of major opposition candidates notably former Katanga province governor Moïse Katumbi and former Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba (AC Vol 59 No 20 Hanging on a click factor)...

On 19 September CENI confirmed the exclusion of several front-runners including former Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba and two former prime ministers Antoine Gizenga and Adolphe Muzito...

This impression is confirmed by the exclusion of two of the most important presidential challengers Jean-Pierre Bemba and Moïse Katumbi from the poll...

Kasaï Central vice-governor Kabuanga Kabuanga Manix used to belong to Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) but these days heads his own party the Congrès des Alliés Pour l'Action au Congo (CAAC) which is part of the ruling Presidential Majority coalition...