Jean-Pierre Bemba

Two figures - President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba - are dominating Congolese politics after the 30 July elections which have been hailed as a success by United Nations (UN) and the United States' Carter Center despite huge organisational problems...

Kabila's three vice-presidents Azarias Ruberwa (RCD) Jean-Pierre Bemba (MLC) and Arthur Z'Ahidi Ngoma (Future Forces) had realised that the UDPS delegation was demanding in effect that the present transitional government be replaced - meaning that they could lose their jobs - and they cut the discussions short...

The AMP spokesman is Olivier Kamitatu former National Assembly chairman and former Secretary General of the Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) of Kabila's main rival Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba...

Jean-Pierre Bemba 44 leader of the ex-rebel and Ugandan-backed MLC is a businessman born in Bokada (Equateur) a graduate of the Brussels Institut Catholique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (ICHEC) and currently Vice-President in charge of economic affairs...

On 25 April the President's guards exchanged shots with Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba's guards; he has 500 in Kinshasa and 1 000 more nearby...

There are endless Kinshasa rumours that Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba who leads the Mouvement pour la Libération Congolaise (MLC) is rearming and talking to his old military ally Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni...

Jean-Pierre Bemba and Azarias Ruberwa formerly his main rivals are damaged by splits in their own parties after a spate of recent resignations...

National Assembly Chairman Olivier Kamitatu could also press for tough action but he has just fallen out with the leader of the Mouvement de Libération du Congo Jean-Pierre Bemba and is being wooed (along with 50 other members of parliament) both by Kabila's Parti pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie and by the Mobutiste parties whose officials the commission's report condemns...

The CEEC's new head is Jean-Pierre Tshimanga from Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo (MLC) which has a big political stake in the diamond business...

One of the four vice-presidents Jean-Pierre Bemba has already threatened to suppress the demonstrations using the armed wing of his Mouvement pour le Libération du Congo...

Assembly President Olivier Kamitatu of Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo thinks federalism is a long-term objective...