Mbusa Nyamwisi

Bemba (MLC) and Mbusa Nyamwisi (RCD-ML) refuse to take up their jobs in Kinshasa because of security worries...

Others linked by the UN Report to Uganda's military commercialism in eastern Congo are businessmen such as Sam Engola and Jacob Manu Soba and rebel Congolese politicians such as Professor Ernest Wamba dia Wamba Roger Lumbala John Tibasima and Mbusa Nyamwisi (see Feature)...

Other fights involve breakaway militias: the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-National (RCD-National) under Roger Lumbala split from the pro-Rwandan Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma (RCD-Goma); allied with Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) it erodes territory controlled by the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Mouvement de Libération (RCD-ML) of Mbusa Nyamwisi which is now allied to the Kinshasa government...

Their presence plus incursions into Beni and Butembo by Congolese Hema is regarded by the Lendu and by Mbusa Nyamwisi as an attempt at Hema recolonisation...

Some 70 per cent of the territory is covered by the 'framework agreement' between President Joseph Kabila's government and most of its opponents: Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo Mbusa Nyamwisi's pro-Ugandan Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Mouvement de Libération Roger Lumbala's RCD National plus most civil society and unarmed opposition delegates...

As prime minister Pretoria wanted to propose Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS); the vice-premiers should include Roger Lumbala leader of a small rebel movement the RCD-National (allied with Bemba) and Mbusa Nyamwisi of the RCD-Mouvement de Libération (RCD-ML)...

Various militias are carving out their areas one of them led by a Kazini-backed Congolese rebel Mbusa Nyamwisi whose rivals are rebels backed by Rwanda...

Bemba is annoyed because Museveni's government has handed back control of a strip on the Congo side of the frontier to the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Mouvement de Libération under Mbusa Nyamwisi who is said to have business links with Gens...

Last year his MLC took control of a strip of land along the border; in mid-August Kampala handed it over to a group led by Mbusa Nyamwisi regarded as friendlier to the Ugandan officers interested in the local gold-mines...

In North Kivu there has been total confusion since Mbusa Nyamwisi returned to the Beni-Butembo region; his supporters have been fighting Bemba's and both have been under attack by the MaiMai...

This is a break-through for Bemba who as he foretold last July has become leader of a Front de Libération Congolais combining his own MLC Mbusa Nyamwisi's faction of the RCD-Mouvement de Libération (RCD-ML) and Tibasima Atenyi formerly head of the Office des Mines d'Or de Kilo-Moto...

Present will be Pierre Pay Pay wa Siakhassighe who was Minister of Finance under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko and has recently emerged as a leading opposition figure in Kivu province; he can influence both Kivu's MaiMai opposition fighters and Mbusa Nyamwisi's Bunia wing of the RCD-Mouvement de Libération backed by Uganda...