Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi (born November 15, 1959) is a politician and former rebel leader in the

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. He leads the

Forces for Renewal The Forces for Renewal (french: Forces du Renouveau), generally still known by its original name RCD-Kisangani-Movement for Liberation (RCD/K-ML), is a political party in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The party originated as a breakaway factio ...

political party and was Minister of Decentralization and Urban and Regional Planning until September 2011 when he resigned to run for president. He was previously the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2008. Mbusa is also a member of the political bureau for Together for Change, the opposition political coalition formed by former Katanga governor

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to support his presidential bid in the upcoming 2018 presidential election.

RCD leader

Mbusa's father fought with the

Rally for Congolese Democracy The Congolese Rally for Democracy (french: Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie; abbreviated RCD), also known as the Rally for Congolese Democracy, is a political party and a former rebel group that operated in the eastern region of the ...

(RCD) against the government of

Laurent-Désiré Kabila Laurent-Désiré Kabila () (27 November 1939 – 18 January 2001) or simply Laurent Kabila ( US: ), was a Congolese revolutionary and politician who was the third President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1997 until his assassinatio ...

in the Second Congo War. In 1999 he left the RCD with Wamba dia Wamba to form the RCD-Kisangani. Mbusa later took over the RCD-K from dia Wamba after they were driven from

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by RCD-Goma, and renamed it RCD-K-Movement of Liberation or RCD-K-ML. The RCD-K-ML was accorded 15 seats in the Transitional National Assembly and participated in the

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headed by

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, when Mbusa was Minister for Regional Cooperation. Mbusa stood in the 2006 presidential elections but decided to stand aside in favour of

before the election. He nonetheless won 96,503 votes, and his party won 26 seats in the simultaneous election to the

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, and seven out of 108 seats in the subsequent indirect elections to the Senate.

Government minister

Forces for Renewal joined the

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Antoine Gizenga Antoine Gizenga (5 October 1925 – 24 February 2019) was a Congolese (DRC) politician who was the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 30 December 2006 to 10 October 2008. He was the Secretary-General of the Unified Lumum ...

and Mbusa became Foreign Minister in February 2007. Kabila's entourage have claimed that Nyamwisi still has private troops reporting directly to him. In the government of Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito, appointed on 26 October 2008, Mbusa was moved to the post of Minister of Decentralization and Urban and Regional Planning (''Aménagement du territoire'')."Publication de la liste des membres du nouveau gouvernement congolais"
, Pana (africanmanager.com), 27 October 2008 . In September 2011 Mbusa quit to run for president, causing his ministry to be dissolved.

References

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