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Congo-Kinshasa

Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba

Date of Birth: 14/12/1932
Place of Birth: Luluabourg, Belgian Congo, now Kananga, Congo-Kinshasa


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French leave

The threat from his enemies across the river explains Patassé's attempts to establish friendly relations with Kabila – notwithstanding French objections and Patassé's closeness since 1982 to Zaïrean opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba...


Kabila takes on the UN

Lawyer Mukendi wa Mulumba adviser to the opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba said that his Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social would consider boycotting the new Congolese francs that Kabila intends as replacements for the worthless zaïres...

Lawyer Mukendi wa Mulumba adviser to the opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba said that his Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social would consider boycotting the new Congolese francs that Kabila intends as replacements for the worthless zaïres...


Kabila's ghosts

Veteran opposition leader Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba still has huge support in the capital Kinshasa and his arrest on 26 June was for many Kinois the final stage in their new government's rapid loss of popular appeal...

Veteran opposition leader Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba still has huge support in the capital Kinshasa and his arrest on 26 June was for many Kinois the final stage in their new government's rapid loss of popular appeal...


Kabila's long march

In fact there has been a series of contacts between the AFDL and the major civilian opposition groupings including Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba (who was elected Prime Minister to replace Kengo by the Haut Conseil on 26 March) and the radical Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social which has mass support in Kinshasa and Kasaï...


A bend in the river

But any realistic deal would have to include Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba and the radical Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) which still has mass support in Kinshasa and in the Kasaï provinces...


Digging in

Mobutu's reshuffled government left the much-disliked (except by Western diplomats) Prime Minister Kengo wa Dondo in place - and left out significant opposition figures such as: the leader of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social ('orthodox'faction) Etienne Tshisekedi; the UDPS ('legal'faction) leader Kibassa Maliba; the President of the Union Sacrée de l'Oppposition Radicale et Alliés (USORAL) and the Parti Démocrate Sociale Chrétien André Bo-Boliko; and Vice-President of the Parti Lumumbiste Unifié Antoine Gizenga...


A hard homecoming

Some in Kengo's circle even claim that Eluki had formed a tactical alliance with the radical Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba...


Dissonant voices

The USA is equally scathing about Mobutu' s circle and oppositionist Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba's political ambitions; neither does it have much faith in the ability of the 'Equateur generals' – such as Kpama Baramoto Kata or Nzimbi Ngbale Kongo wa Bassa – – to hold the ring if Mobutu' s grip slips totally...


Kinshasa questions

In September 1992 when Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba was Premier Mahele won plaudits from the radical opposition for urging the army to 'obey the legal authority – both political and military'...


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