Jean-Pierre Bemba

There are now hints of a rebel rapprochement; both wings of the RCD and Jean-Pierre Bemba's Uganda-backed Mouvement de Libération Congolais (MLC) want Nelson Mandela as mediator in Congo's long-awaited national debate...

And Kabila's recent attacks on Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo thought to have about 20 000 troops in the north-east have been strongly repulsed...

Since the first round of signatures on 10 July fighting has slowed across large swathes of territory with two important and worrying exceptions: the Uganda-Rwanda confrontation in Kisangani (see Feature) and the advances of Jean-Pierre Bemba's MLC with Ugandan support in its home-base of Equateur Province north-west of Kinshasa...

Kampala further annoys Kigali by supporting Jean-Pierre Bemba's rebels in Congo's north-western Equateur Province...

In the north-west Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) claimed on 5 July to have captured Gbadolité the former headquarters of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...

He has therefore been unable to prevent the advance in the north of the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo founded in Equateur province in December 1998 by Jean-Pierre Bemba...

The few Westerners who have managed to visit the areas controlled by Jean-Pierre Bemba have been impressed...

The MLC is led by Jean-Pierre Bemba son of Bemba Saolona who in Mobutu’s time was head of the Association Nationale des Entreprises du Zaïre...

In early November Jean-Pierre Bemba’s Mouvement de Libération du Congo supported by Yakoma former mutineers from the CAR army defeated 3 000 Chadians who were pre-positioned at Gbadolité in Ngbandi country to support Kabila’s government...