Tout Puissant Mazembe Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/tout-puissant-mazembe/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 29 May 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Tout Puissant Mazembe Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/tout-puissant-mazembe/ 32 32 Katumbi leaves South Africa and lands in London https://jjcornish.com/2016/05/katumbi-leaves-south-africa-lands-london/ Sun, 29 May 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/05/katumbi-leaves-south-africa-lands-london/ Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader Moise Katumbi has left Johannesburg where he came for medical treatment last week. He’s now in London. Katumbi faces arrest if he returns to Kinshasa on charges, which he strongly denies, of recruiting mercenaries. ends intro Moise Katumbi owns the football team Tout Puissant Mazembe . He’s hoping that  […]

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]]> Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader Moise Katumbi has left Johannesburg where he came for medical treatment last week. He’s now in London.

Katumbi faces arrest if he returns to Kinshasa on charges, which he strongly denies, of recruiting mercenaries.

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Moise Katumbi owns the football team Tout Puissant Mazembe .

He’s hoping that  all powerful label might apply to his aspirations to become president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Elections are due before the end of the year when President Joseph Kabila reaches his constitutional term limit.

It’s by no means certain Kabila will stand down.

This has given rise to violent demonstrations.

The charges laid against Katumbi after he threw his hat in the ring would indicate Kabila is bent on staying around.

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