Congo-Kinshasa: Kabila Forms Unity Govt

Radio Okapi/ Ph. John Bompengo
Le président de la République Démocratique du Congo, Joseph Kabila
10 December 2014
allAfrica.com

Cape Town — A day after the Democratic Republic of Congo’s second-largest opposition party, the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC), agreed to join a national unity government, the party reportedly expelled its leader and two senior officials.

MLC Secretary-General Thomas Luhaka was named as one of three vice-prime ministers in the new government, while parliamentarians Germain Kambinga and Omer Egwake were awarded ministerial posts.

In a statement from the MLC, the party criticised the three men for “behaviour manifestly contrary to the political line adopted by the party”.

The statement was signed by the MLC's deputy secretaries-general in the name of its president, Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former rebel leader.

Bemba is being held in The Hague awaiting a verdict on charges of crimes against humanity over his alleged role in a conflict in neighbouring Central African Republic.

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