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Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba (14 December 1932 – 1 February 2017) was a Congolese politician and the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), formerly the main opposition political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A long-time opposition leader, he served as Prime Minister of the country (then called ...
May 9, 2024 · Étienne Tshisekedi (born December 14, 1932, Luluabourg, Belgian Congo [now Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo]—died February 1, 2017, Belgium) was a Congolese opposition leader who founded (1982) the country’s first opposition party and worked against the successive presidents Mobutu Sese Seko, Laurent Kabila, and Joseph Kabila.
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Feb 2, 2017 · Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba was born on Dec. 14, 1932, in what was then Luluabourg (now Kananga), a colonial outpost in central Congo, the biggest country geographically in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mar 26, 2017 · Etienne Tshisekedi (wa Mulumba) was born on 14 December 1932 in Luluabourg in the Belgium Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Tshisekedi grew up in a modest family. In 1960 the year the Belgium Congo became independent, he was twenty-eight. In the same year, he became the first Congolese student in his country to graduate from law ...
Feb 2, 2017 · Tshisekedi was the main opponent of former president Laurent Kabila, who took power in 1997, and his son, President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled the country since 2001.
Feb 1, 2017 · Item 1 of 5 Congolese opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, flanked by his wife Marthe, attend a political rally in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, July 31, 2016.
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Feb 1, 2017 · Etienne Tshisekedi, leader of the opposition in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a critical figure in ongoing negotiations to end the country’s year-long political crisis, has died aged 84.
