Emmanuel Ntima Weyi is a Congolese entrepreneur and former presidential candidate for the

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. He served as the co-founder and

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of Groupe Weyi International – a sustainable mining enterprise focused on the Congo from 2009-2014.

Education

Weyi was born in

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on May 29, 1959, and grew up in a family with 2 brothers and 7 sisters. In 1960, Weyi's family moved to the capital of Kinshasa, where his father would become the head of the Union Zaroise de Banques in 1971. That same year, Weyi completed his completed his elementary schooling at a Catholic school. In 1972, at the behest of his father, Weyi went back to the

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to attend a Catholic boarding school for secondary education. After graduating high school in 1979, he attended the Ecole Internationale Des Hautes Etudes in

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to study International Relations.

Career

After moving to the US, Weyi attended an English language school, where he learned how to speak and write English, adding to his fluency in French,

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, Swahili and

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. In 2003, focusing on business in Congo, he started Groupe Weyi, an enterprise focused on sustainable mining in the DRC. In 2011, it expanded to Kinshasa, DRC. Weyi has been defrauding American citizens since his "run" for president of Congo, which he used to get money for his personal expenses. He is protected by Wikipedia editors, but his true story can be found online. He stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from his former partner Chuck Blakeman. He has not been in the US since 2016. He is homeless. He has been moving from rented room to rented room in Kampala, Uganda, where he often does not pay his rent.

Presidential campaign

In 2011, Weyi participated in a congress to decide on one candidate to represent the diaspora in the upcoming election of that year. And in 2015, he announced that he would plan to run for president in the 2016 elections when current incumbent

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completed his second and last term in office as mandated by the DRC's constitution. After multiple years-long delays from then-president Kabila, he withdrew his candidacy, with

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eventually announced the winner—amid more controversy —in 2019.

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* (Campaign) {{DEFAULTSORT:Weyi, Emmanuel 1959 births Democratic Republic of the Congo politicians Living people People from Kisangani 21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people