But neither of the main rebel movements the Rwandan-backed Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie (RCD) and Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération de Congo (MLC) were present and both ruled out troop withdrawals...
Vol 41 No 20 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Reports of the discussions show a rapprochement between Angola Rwanda (which backs the opposition Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma) Uganda (which backs two rebel groups - the RCD-Kisangani and Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo) and Congo-Brazzaville whose President Denis Sassou-Nguesso is one of Angola's key regional allies...
Luanda is talking to Congolese opposition leaders such as Jean-Pierre Bemba former Premier Léon Kengo wa Dondo and Nimy Mayidika who runs a group called the Rassemblement des 11 Provinces (R11)...
Vol 41 No 17 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Granting access to UN peacekeepers and probably directing them towards the battle-zones in the north-west may dampen the military operations of Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement du Libération de Congo...
The aim was to relieve the fuel shortage in Kinshasa while making supplies difficult for Jean-Pierre Bemba's Ugandan-allied MLC (see box) which controls the entire border with the Central African Republic and part of that with Congo-B as far as Impfondo whence it got its oil...
Vol 41 No 17 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The Mouvement de Libération du Congo was formed between late 1998 and early 1999 around Jean-Pierre Bemba a huge man who stands some 1...
Vol 41 No 13 |
- RWANDA
- UGANDA
The UPDF has been accused of bringing in hundreds of soldiers from the Mouvement pour la Libération Congolaise (MLC) the rebel movement headed by businessman Jean-Pierre Bemba which has concentrated its efforts in the far north and north-west of Congo-K...
Maliba and Saolona (whose son Jean-Pierre Bemba leads a north-western based rebel movement) have been accused of 'obstructing' an investigation into the undervaluation of diamonds seized at Kinshasa's N'djili Airport...
They seem to have remained in their positions since 8 April when a new ceasefire agreement was signed in Kampala involving all parties to the conflict - Kabila's government and its allies from Zimbabwe Angola and Namibia and Uganda and Rwanda plus the rebels of the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma the RCD-Mouvement de Libération led by Professor Ernest Wamba dia Wamba and the Mouvement de Libération du Congo under Jean-Pierre Bemba...
Vol 41 No 4 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
This looked like a quid pro quo for not embarrassing Museveni too much at the Security Council session to which rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba of the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo was not invited probably because his Ugandan backers did not insist on his presence...
Vol 41 No 3 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
But the more independent opponents of Kabila saw things differently: Jean-Pierre Bemba's Uganda-backed Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo (MLC) said it was not worth turning up; Etienne Tshisekedi chief of the most powerful unarmed opposition movement preferred to make a trip to South Africa to see Nelson Mandela...