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	Ernest Wamba dia Wamba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ernest Wamba dia Wamba (born 1942) is a Senator, as well as the vice president of the Senate Permanent Commission on Legal and Administrative Matters, of the transitional administration of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly "Zaire").
		Wamba dia Wamba was born in Sundi-Lutete, in the Bas-Congo region of the DRC.
		In 2001, Wamba denounced an Ugadan proposal to unite the RCD-K, RCD-ML and Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) as an unwelcome foreign imposition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ernest_Wamba_dia_Wamba (939 words)

	Press Release - Children and Armed Conflict
		Wamba made the commitment to a temporary ceasefire in response to the Special Representative's call for a respite in fighting, in order to allow for vaccinations and the special feeding of malnourished children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Wamba said the tragic events of Makobolo and Kasika were now under investigation; he accepted the participation of international experts to assist in the process.
		Wamba acknowledged that the RCD had inherited "kadogos" (Swahili for 'little ones'), from the 1996-1997 war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and he said the RCD was ready to cooperate with United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations in ensuring demobilization and reintegration of child soldiers.
	www.un.org /children/conflict/pr/1999-03-02specialrepresent69.html (660 words)

	Interviews
		Wamba dia Wamba: I have been at least indirectly involved in the movement which has been fighting for better institutions, better living conditions for the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
		Wamba dia Wamba: We still have provisional structures because we believe the movement has to be open to all the political forces in the country and we hope that many will join.
		Wamba dia Wamba: I did not, we did meet and he invited me in Congo and I went and spent two months trying to see him but I was never seen.
	www.dac.neu.edu /congocrisis/interviews.html (845 words)

	Philippe Wamba Obituary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Wamba drew about his life and those of many African expatriates was that being a citizen of two starkly different worlds could sometimes mean belonging to neither.
		Wamba's father, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba (his son used a shortened version of the family name), was born and raised in what was then the Belgian Congo.
		Wamba dia Wamba rose to the leadership of a rebel faction in Congo, providing yet another unlikely dimension to his son's life.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF2003/Wamba/Wamba.html (407 words)

	BBC News \| Africa \| Congo rebel leader 'ousted'
		Dr Wamba dia Wamba has accused his opponents of staging a coup against him, which could only weaken the rebels in their struggle to unseat President Laurent Kabila.
		In response, Dr Wamba dia Wamba says he is the victim of a campaign of intimidation and disinformation, arguing that the RCD will be seriously weakened by what he described as an internal coup.
		Dr Wamba dia Wamba was recently accused of being a Ugandan protege.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/346668.stm (392 words)

	Biographies
		Fifty-six year old Ernest Wamba dia Wamba is a Congolese citizen and the Chairperson of the Congolese Democracy Movement.
		Wamba was named a recipient of the prestigious Prince Claus Award for Culture and Development in recognition of his "scholarly contribution to the development of African philosophy and for sparking off the philosophical debate on social and political themes in Africa."
		Wamba dia Wamba was unanimously elected by the CDM to be the Coordinator of the organization.
	www.dac.neu.edu /congocrisis/biographies.html (1396 words)

	DRC: Less State Is Not Best State - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum
		EWDW: There seems to be a real discrepancy between what the South African leadership affirms as values which have to guide Africa in handling conflicts and the so-called political realism, money and civil servants' appreciation of criterias of selection, profiles of people to be placed in leadership positions and relationships with superpowers.
		EWDW: First of all, we need to have a State in the DRC and move away from this claim that less State (almost no State at all) is best State.
		About the Author: Professor Ernest Wamba dia Wamba is a historian who is serving as a senator in the transitional senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/congo/2005/0113federal.htm (1616 words)

	Pambazuka News
		Ernest Wamba dia Wamba : At no time since independence have Congolese agreed on fundamentals of national ideals or interests (and their articulation to world powers and neighbouring countries’interests) without external arbitration.
		Ernest Wamba dia Wamba : The most important thing is that for the first time, there seems to be a consensus in the international community to have elections, even if only symbolically.
		Ernest Wamba dia Wamba : It is true the international community pushes the thesis : have an election and everything will be okay.
	www.pambazuka.org /en/category/comment/33999 (2019 words)

	ROAPE: Note - Wamba is free
		News has recently been received of the release from city-arrest in Kinshasa of the well-known Zaïrean progressive historian, Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba, and his return to Dar as Salaam where he is a History lecturer at the University.
		Wamba was arrested by Zaïrean authorities in December 1981 on the occasion of a short trip home to visit his family; no charges were ever brought against him.
		For 34 days he was held in detention in one of Kinshasa's worst jails, and for the next 9 months he was kept under city arrest in Kinshasa and not allowed to leave the country.
	www.roape.org /cgi-bin/roape/show/2402.html (130 words)

	Rebel Leaders Agree to Sign Congo Peace Accord
		Wamba dia Wamba was ousted in May and set up his own faction in the northeastern city of Kisangani.
		The compromise calls for all 50 original leaders of the rebellion to sign the document, not only Wamba dia Wamba and his replacement in the Rally for Democracy, Dr. Emile Ilunga.
		Wamba dia Wamba said on Tuesday that he would accept the compromise, though with some bitterness.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/africa/082599congo-accord.html (872 words)

	Pambazuka News
		Prof Ernest Wamba dia Wamba is a Senator, and the vice president of the Senate Permanent Commission on Legal and Administrative Matters of the transitional administration of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Prof Wamba dia Wamba: Congolese people saw these elections as an opportunity to express their political views, as well as an opportunity to influence the political decision as to which the direction the country should take.
		Prof Wamba dia Wamba: The peace negotiation mechanisms encouraged by the UN and other international agencies are structured in such a way that they favour those who have the means to threaten peace over the weak and poor.
	www.pambazuka.org /en/category/comment/38523 (1448 words)

	Congo Rivals Sign Cease-Fire Without 2 Rebel Groups
		One rebel group said it did not feel bound by the deal, which is supposed to lead to an immediate cease-fire, the creation of a merged national army and plans for a discussion on the nation's future government.
		The leadership of one of the two rebel groups, the Congolese Rally for Democracy, is split between its founder, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, and an upstart replacement, Emile Ilunga.
		Wamba dia Wamba, a professor, is a bookish man with a small voice, but his quiet defiance turned what should have been a proud day for Zambia into one of chaos and humiliation.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/africa/071199congo-truce.html (956 words)

	IRIN interview with RCD-ML faction leader Ernest Wamba dia Wamba. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Wamba was president of the Congolese rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD), based in Goma, from September 1998 to mid-1999, when he was deposed and replaced by Emile Ilunga.
		Wamba moved to the northeastern town of Kisangani, and subsequently to Bunia, where he formed the splinter RCD-Mouvement de liberation (RCD-ML).
		IRIN is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=26392 (718 words)

	Security Council,
		On the surface, the failure of the rebels to sign involves one man, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, a soft-spoken professor who was recently ousted as the leader of the rebel group called the Congolese Rally for Democracy.
		Wamba dia Wamba has insisted that he still sign, even though he no longer has any troops supporting him.
		Karaha, a top official in the Rally for Democracy, accuses Wamba dia Wamba of sacrificing peace for millions of people for his own political gain.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/congo12.htm (1043 words)

	The EastAfrican on the Web
		Philippe Wamba, son of the Congolese rebel leader, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba exhibited a complex and often disorienting dual existence as both African and American, writes PHILIP NGUNJIRI
		Philippe Wamba, son of the Congolese rebel leader, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba exhibited a complex and often disorienting dual existence as both African and American.
		His father, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba was born and raised in what was then the Belgian Congo.
	www.nationmedia.com /eastafrican/13092004/Regional/Regional5.html (1364 words)

	IRIN Update 580 for 5 Jan 1999
		AP quoted RCD president Ernest Wamba dia Wamba as announcing: "We have agreed on the objectives of the struggle".
		Wamba dia Wamba's address, broadcast from Goma, was cut off by his political rivals, news reports said.
		The representative Gaston Mubawa Kangere is an ally of Wamba dia Wamba, the newspaper reported.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Hornet/irin580.html (678 words)

	Amazon.com: "Ernest Wamba": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Ernest Wamba dia Wamba More and more parts of Africa are receding from Western con- sciousness and taking their place in a...
		Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba, "The State of All Rwandese: Political Prescriptions and Disasters," paper presented to CODESRIA conference, Arusha, 1995, p.
		The RCD's leader, ostensibly, was a history professor, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, previously based in Dar es Salaam.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Ernest-Wamba (540 words)

	The EastAfrican
		"If Wamba dia Wamba is allowed to sign, it will be a violation of the ceasefire before it starts," said RCD official Bizima Karaha.
		It is also backing the group that left in May with Wamba dia Wamba - the man at the centre of Saturday's dispute.
		With dramatic flair, Wamba dia Wamba arrived at the conference centre early Saturday, occupied the RCD chair, and told reporters, "I should sign."
	www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/120799/Regional/Regional6.html (901 words)

	Amazon.com: New Congo for a New Millennium: Essays of Wamba Dia Wamba & Documents from the Rally for Congolese ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A longtime Congolese scholar-activist, Wamba Dia Wamba tells the story of important political developments during this time in Congo-Zaire, one of the richest countries in Africa and a leading source of the world’s diamonds, gold, and minerals.
		Born in 1942 in Sundi-Lutete, Congo, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba is a graduate of Western Michigan University and Claremont Graduate School.
		A widely published author, Wamba dia Wamba is considered one of the most prolific and important theoreticians of African liberation since Amilcar Cabral.
	www.amazon.com /New-Congo-Millennium-Documents-Congolese/dp/0865437858 (858 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Harvard's International Pulpit
		Widely derided in Congo as a puppet of foreign powers that have invaded the country to plunder its diamond wealth, Wamba dia Wamba's own subordinates have admitted that his soldiers have been involved in at least one very bloody massacre of civilians.
		The website of Wamba dia Wamba's rebel group (designed by a Kenyan refugee working at gunpoint) prominently announced his Kennedy school talk, as well as other university engagements.
		After four years of being constantly reminded that they have studied under the best teachers and have had the opportunity to interact with the most important leaders of their generation, the reality is that many Harvard undergraduates do go on to fill the corridors and climb the ladders of power.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=101352 (970 words)

	Rebels Merge (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, refused to sign it, blaming Ugandan authorities for hurrying the exercise and disregarding issues that may crop up in future.
		His deputy is to be Wamba in a leadership to rotate annually.
		Other signatories were Wamba deputies Mbusa Nyamwisi and Tibasima Atenyi as coordinator and prime minister and energy and mines minister respectively.
	www.hartford-hwp.com.cob-web.org:8888 /archives/35/297.html (226 words)

	The EastAfrican
		A FRESH dispute has broken out among Congolese rebels, forcing Prof Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, president of the Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD), to shift his base from Goma to Kisangani.
		The response of the Catholic church to this latest peace initiative is not yet known, but Prof Wamba said that the RCD had received the proposal.
		Prof Wamba was unwilling to disclose the names of those involved in the row saying only: "Some people think the only place to stay is Goma.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/090499/Regional/Regional18.html (472 words)

	Converted from "CON7.TXT"
		On Tuesday, AP quoted RCD president Ernest Wamba dia Wamba as announcing: "We have agreed on the objectives of the struggle".
		In a New Year's address, Wamba dia Wamba lashed out at power-hungry and corrupt ex-Mobutuists in the movement who threaten to "destroy" the RCD.
		According to news reports Wamba dia Wamba's address was cut off by his political rivals.
	ospiti.peacelink.it /bukavu/rs/CON7_13.html (980 words)

	"Kinship: A Family's Journey in Africa and America," By Philippe Wamba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		But Philippe Wamba believes efforts to put those ideals into practice are often hampered by the fact that Africans and African Americans have grown up on two different continents, with different life styles and customs.
		His parents met in the 1960s at Western Michigan University, where his father, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, was a scholarship student from the Congo.
		Philippe Wamba continues to be personally touched by events in Africa: In 1998, he learned that his father was leading a Congolese rebel movement.
	www.familyhaven.com /books/kinshipafamily.html (857 words)

	Ernest Wamba dia Wamba - Moviefone
		Ernest Wamba dia Wamba (born 1942) is a Senator, as well as the vice president of the Senate Permanent Commission on Legal and Administrative Matters,...
		Harry Kreisler interviews Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, Senator, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 2004.
		Ernest Wamba dia Wamba - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/ernest-wamba-dia-wamba/470196/main (119 words)

	CNN - Congo rebels consider cease-fire proposal - November 20, 1998
		Rebel leader Ernest Wamba dia Wamba -- speaking to a peace mediation committee in Botswana's capital Gaborone -- said his forces were ready for a military showdown with Kabila and his allies, should Kabila continue to refuse direct talks.
		But, in an eight-point document distributed to delegates at talks in Gaborone, Wamba dia Wamba said a cease-fire demanded by regional leaders should be an outcome of negotiations and not a precondition to negotiations.
		But if we're going to be bound by it, be a signatory to it, then we have also to be participating in the whole conference," Wamba dia Wamba said.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9811/20/congo.01/index.html (552 words)

	Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD)
		It is split into two factions, with RCD-Kisangani [Congolese Rally for Democracy-Liberation Movement - RCD-ML] led by the movement’s former president Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, and the mainstream RCD-Goma initially led by the new president Emile Ilunga.
		On 20 May 1999 the RCD named medical doctor Emile Ilunga as its new leader after Ernest Wamba dia Wamba was ousted on Sunday.
		The change was announced after a special congress of 50 RCD founder members and 22 military commanders in the their capital Goma, the Rwanda News Agency (RNA) reported.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/rcd.htm (631 words)

	IRIN Update 687 for 7 June [19990607]
		Forces supporting ousted rebel leader Ernest Wamba dia Wamba attacked a rival radio station in Kisangani last Thursday, humanitarian sources told IRIN on Monday.
		Kisangani is described as very tense, due to the presence of both factions and their respective Ugandan and Rwandan backers.
		News organisations said rebel leaders Jean-Pierre Bemba of the Mouvement de liberation congolais (MLC) and Ernest Wamba dia Wamba would attend, along with representatives of the mainstream Goma-based RCD.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Hornet/irin687.html (1242 words)

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