There are now hints of a rebel rapprochement; both wings of the RCD and Jean-Pierre Bemba's Uganda-backed Mouvement de Libération Congolais (MLC) want Nelson Mandela as mediator in Congo's long-awaited national debate...
Vol 40 No 24 |
- UNITED NATIONS
And Kabila's recent attacks on Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo thought to have about 20 000 troops in the north-east have been strongly repulsed...
Vol 40 No 18 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Since the first round of signatures on 10 July fighting has slowed across large swathes of territory with two important and worrying exceptions: the Uganda-Rwanda confrontation in Kisangani (see Feature) and the advances of Jean-Pierre Bemba's MLC with Ugandan support in its home-base of Equateur Province north-west of Kinshasa...
Vol 40 No 18 |
- RWANDA
- UGANDA
Kampala further annoys Kigali by supporting Jean-Pierre Bemba's rebels in Congo's north-western Equateur Province...
Vol 40 No 14 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
In the north-west Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) claimed on 5 July to have captured Gbadolité the former headquarters of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...
Vol 40 No 8 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
He has therefore been unable to prevent the advance in the north of the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo founded in Equateur province in December 1998 by Jean-Pierre Bemba...
The few Westerners who have managed to visit the areas controlled by Jean-Pierre Bemba have been impressed...
Vol 40 No 2 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The MLC is led by Jean-Pierre Bemba son of Bemba Saolona who in Mobutu’s time was head of the Association Nationale des Entreprises du Zaïre...
In early November Jean-Pierre Bemba’s Mouvement de Libération du Congo supported by Yakoma former mutineers from the CAR army defeated 3 000 Chadians who were pre-positioned at Gbadolité in Ngbandi country to support Kabila’s government...