Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi | |
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| Foreign Minister | |
| In office February 2007 – October 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Raymond Ramazani Baya |
| Succeeded by | Alexis Thambwe Mwamba |
| Minister of Decentralization and Urban and Regional Planning | |
| In office 26 October 2008 – 11 September 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Denis Kalume Numbi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1959-11-15)November 15, 1959 (age 65) |
Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi (born November 15, 1959) is a politician and former rebel leader in theDemocratic Republic of the Congo. He leads theForces for Renewal 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 governorMoïse Katumbi to support his presidential bid in the upcoming2018 presidential election.[1] In March 2023, Antipas Mbusa becomes Minister of State, in charge of Regional Integration.[2]
Mbusa's father fought with theRally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) against the government ofLaurent-Désiré Kabila in theSecond Congo War. In 1999 he left the RCD withWamba dia Wamba to form theRCD-Kisangani. Mbusa later took over the RCD-K from dia Wamba after they were driven fromKisangani byRCD-Goma, and renamed it RCD-K-Movement of Liberation or RCD-K-ML.
The RCD-K-ML was accorded 15 seats in theTransitional National Assembly and participated in theTransitional Government headed byJoseph Kabila, when Mbusa was Minister for Regional Cooperation.[3]
Mbusa stood in the2006 presidential elections but decided to stand aside in favour ofJoseph Kabila before the election.[4] He nonetheless won 96,503 votes, and his party won 26 seats in the simultaneous election to theNational Assembly, and seven out of 108 seats in the subsequent indirectelections to the Senate.
Forces for Renewal joined thegovernment ofAntoine Gizenga and Mbusa became Foreign Minister in February 2007. Kabila's entourage have claimed that Mbusa still has private troops reporting directly to him. In the government of Prime MinisterAdolphe Muzito, appointed on 26 October 2008, Mbusa was moved to the post of Minister of Decentralization and Urban and Regional Planning (Aménagement du territoire).[5]In September 2011 Mbusa quit to run for president, causing his ministry to be dissolved.[6]
 Candidates in the2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo presidential election | |
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| Candidates in the2006 Democratic Republic of the Congo presidential election | |
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