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Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba

Date of Birth: 14/12/1932
Place of Birth: Luluabourg, Belgian Congo, now Kananga, Congo-Kinshasa


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Cover-up in UN murders

But they also knew the Kasaïs were the fiefdom of these presidents' principal political opponent Etienne Tshisekedi President Félix Tshisekedi's father who was from Kasaï Central and his party the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS)...

Etienne Tshisekedi died in February 2017 and President Joseph Kabila whose five-year presidential mandate had expired in 2016 sought to exploit his death to weaken the UDPS and Kasaïan opposition in general (AC Vol 58 No 4 Leader's demise imperils deal)...


Missing you already

Two years and four months after the old man passed away the body of veteran Congolese politician Étienne Tshisekedi finally returned from Brussels to Congo-Kinshasa on 30 May...

Étienne Tshisekedi was a devout Catholic but the President periodically attends a church that is a member of the ECC...


A day of portents

Tshisekedi was born in Kinshasa but his famous father Etienne Tshisekedi was a Luba from Kasaï Central...


Militias flex their muscles

They opted for Martin Fayulu an articulate national parliamentarian who can mobilise the Kinshasa street but the next day Félix Tshisekedi son of the late and perennial opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi pulled out quickly followed by former information minister Vital Kamerhe...


Kabila thriving on chaos

The 62-year-old was a confidant of the late Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba the towering figure of opposition politics who died in February and a Deputy Secretary General of his Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS; AC Vol 58 No 4 Leader's demise imperils deal)...

The 62-year-old was a confidant of the late Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba the towering figure of opposition politics who died in February and a Deputy Secretary General of his Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS; AC Vol 58 No 4 Leader's demise imperils deal)...

Most of the coalition has lined up behind Etienne Tshisekedi's son Félix Tshisekedi and Pierre Lumbi Okongo President of the G-7 a group of seven political parties which left the MP in September 2015 and backs Moïse Katumbi Chapwe a one-time Kabila ally and former Governor of Katanga to become the next president...

'Bruno was close to Etienne Tshisekedi as an individual but very distant from the rest ' said one UDPS official...


Leader's demise imperils deal

The death in Brussels on 1 February of the historic charismatic opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 84 is a stark blow to the Congolese peace process...

The death in Brussels on 1 February of the historic charismatic opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 84 is a stark blow to the Congolese peace process...


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