He probably feared that his family interests in the Oubangui valley were threatened by Patassé's relationship with Jean-Pierre Bemba leader of the rebel Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo (see Box: The Mobutu factor)...
About 200 Congolese rebel fighters from Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo's Mouvement de Libération du Congo commanded by their Chief of Staff Colonel Amuli joined the CAR army in putting down the CAR rebels...
Vol 42 No 9 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Alongside Museveni's announcement one of his rebel protégés in Congo Jean-Pierre Bemba of the Front pour la Libération du Congo strongly rejected the UN report's findings and recommendations...
It records that Jean-Pierre Bemba took over 200 tn...
The UN experts censure none of this but call for the prosecution of Jean-Pierre Bemba and Aziza Kulsum Gulamali...
Vol 42 No 8 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
As in the previous government Equateur province of rebel Jean-Pierre Bemba (and of the late dictator Mobutu) receives only token representation with Tomothée Moleka Nzulama at Youth and Sports and Jeanne Embaba Boboto at Social Affairs...
Vol 42 No 6 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The UN Observer Mission in Congo (MONUC) criticised the attack on 12 March in Equateur Province by Jean-Pierre Bemba's Ugandan-backed Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo on a vessel on the Ikelembe river belonging to the Forces Armées Congolaises (FAC)...
Vol 42 No 4 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Two days after the latest summit MLC boss Jean-Pierre Bemba gave peace another nudge forward by meeting in Bunia District near the Ugandan border the traditional chiefs of the Hema and Lendu peoples who have been engaged in a very bloody conflict for months...
The fighting between the Kinshasa government and Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo (MLC) in Equateur Province has blocked commercial traffic on the Congo and Oubangui rivers the main access to the sea...
Vol 42 No 2 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
However both President José Eduardo dos Santos and Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe were angered by military risks taken by Kabila without consulting his allies; examples were the launch of an offensive in Equateur Province last June when the Forces Armées Congolaises (FAC) were badly beaten by Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo (plus Uganda)...
Vol 42 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
In Equateur Province Kabila is stepping up pressure on Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo (MLC)...
Some observers note that his ideas would above all favour one of Congo-K's leading rebels Rwanda's friend Jean-Pierre Bemba of the Mouvement de Libération Congolaise...