Jean-Pierre Bemba

Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba of the Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) threatened to withdraw from the transition process after the suspension of his close associate José Endundo Minister of Public Works and co-owner of Hewa Bora airlines...

When Jean-Pierre Bemba threatened to withdraw from the government that was the gist of his accusations against Kabila...

) Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) still claims that elections are possible while threatening to pull out of the ruling coalition on 31 January if President Kabila's Parti du Peuple pour la Réconciliation et le Développement (PPRD) does not give it more senior jobs...

President Kabila wants the International Criminal Court to speed up its hearings on crimes perpetrated in Ituri allegedly by elements of the MLC and the RCD-National; he wants a verdict before the elections because he hopes to discredit his main rival Jean-Pierre Bemba whose troops are accused of cannibalism...

Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba leader of the Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) followed suit a few days later by touring the eastern town of Bukavu...

Artisanal mining is centred on the thickly-forested northern Likouala province which borders Central African Republic another diamond producer and Jean-Pierre Bemba's territory in Congo-Kinshasa...

They destroyed the offices of Kabila's Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et le Développement (PPRD) of Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) and of Joseph Olengankhoy's Forces Novatrices de l'Union Sacrée (Fonus) denouncing what they saw as the incompetence of the President and his four vice-presidents...

Other factions such as Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo and Vice-President Azarias Ruberwa's Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie smell a set up by the Kabila clique designed perhaps to justify a new clampdown on political and military dissidents...

The current governorships are shared between pro-Kabilists and RCD-Goma nominees and Kabila will have to keep some appointments open for other ex-rebel groups especially Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo...

The intelligence men suspected him of 'spying' on behalf of Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba head of the once-rebel Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) and of association with one of Bemba's allies the well informed French businessman bon viveur and sometime advisor to the South African government Jean-Yves Olivier...

Vice-President Jean Pierre Bemba says he too should have been consulted...