A top ally of presidential candidate and Katanga province governor Moïse Katumbi has been murdered in Kinshasa leading to speculation that would-be presidential candidates are being intimidated into not standing against President Félix Tshisekedi in the poll scheduled for December...

Former Katangan governor Moïse Katumbi is keeping a low profile for now but is expected to declare his candidacy at some point...

Since becoming Tshisekedi's advisor in addition to handling relations with Kabila Biselele has been given several sensitive dossiers by the President including the file on former Katanga governor Moïse Katumbi an uneasy ally of Tshisekedi's who is weighing up whether to risk a presidential bid in the 2023 elections...

Moïse Katumbi the former governor of Katanga an episodic ally of Tshisekedi for several years looks undecided...

The third vice-prime minister is Minister of Foreign Affairs Christophe Lutundula of former Katanga governor Moïse Katumbi's Ensemble party...

Four of them hold vice-prime minister positions: President Félix Tshisekedi's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS); the Ensemble party of Moïse Katumbi governor of the mining hub of Katanga for eight years; ex-rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC); and former President Joseph Kabila's Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie (PPRD)...

Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) interim president Jean-Marc Kabund has alleged that Jean-Pierre Bemba and Moïse Katumbi two veteran opposition leaders who have recently joined the USN after much hesitation had demanded the posts of prime minister and National Assembly president respectively and that in doing so they were trying to destroy the USN (AC Vol 61 No 5 Clash of the kings)...

Tshisekedi initially had former Katangan governor Moïse Katumbi in mind for the role say sources but is now less enthusiastic after Katumbi apparently requested terms and conditions the President was not prepared to live with...

The consultations at the Palais de la Nation in Kinshasa's Gombe commune did attract some heavy-hitters – notably ex-Katanga governor Moïse Katumbi and ex-Vice-President and former International Criminal Court detainee Jean-Pierre Bemba...