Jean-Pierre Bemba

Jean-Pierre Bemba leads the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo backed by Uganda...

Sewing up the hierarchy The top five government jobs are sewn up: President (since 26 January 2001) Joseph Kabila; the Vice-Presidents: Arthur Zahidi N'goma (civilian opposition); Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi (government); Jean-Pierre Bemba (Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo); Azarias Ruberwa (Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma)...

His latest offence was to form an alliance with Jean-Pierre Bemba leader of the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo and a bitter opponent of both Congo-Kinshasa's President Joseph Kabila and President Idriss Déby of Chad...

Yet there is agreement of sorts on the four vice-presidents who are to understudy Kabila: Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi Tumba Futa Bingolo (government); Jean-Pierre Bemba (Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo); Azarias Ruberwa (RCD-Goma); Arthur Zahidi N'Goma (non-armed opposition)...

The Paris-based human rights movement the Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme welcomed President Ange-Félix Patassé to Paris by bringing a war crimes case at the International Criminal Court against him as well as Chadian former rebel Abdoulaye Miskine and Congo-Kinshasa rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba...

The two main rebel organisations will each nominate a vice-president - probably Jean-Pierre Bemba of the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo (MLC supported by Uganda) to run the economic and financial commission; and Azarias Ruberwa of the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie (RCD-Goma supported by Rwanda) to run the political commission...

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...

Bindoumi cited a taped telephone conversation where Démafouth was allegedly asking Congo-Kinshasa rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba for troops to help him take power in Bangui...

They disagree over the respective powers of Kabila as transitional President and of his designated Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Bemba who says he will come to Kinshasa only if he can bring 1 500 of his men...

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...