Vital Kamerhe
Vital Kamerhe ( born March 4, 1959 in Bukavu, Belgian Congo ) is a Congolese politician who was from 2007 to 2009 President of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and previously held various political offices in the country.
Life
Early years
On March 4, 1959 Vital Kamerhe Lwa Kanyiginyi Nkingi was born in the town of Bukavu in Sud Kivu district, which belonged to the former Belgian Congo. His parents say Constantine Kamerhe Kanyginyi and Alphonsine Mwa Nkingi. He attended primary school in Bukavu, Goma and Gandajika, a town in the district of Kasai - Oriental. Between 1975 and 1977 he attended an institute in the city of Kikwit in Bandundu province. He then moved to Kananga ( Kasai - Occidental), and a year later to Mbuji -Mayi where in 1980 he received a state final exam. He learned all the four national languages of the Democratic Republic of Congo: Kikongo, Lingala, Kiswahili and Tshiluba. also speaks French Kamerhe.
After studying at the University of Kinshasa Kamerhe, where in 1987 he received a diploma in economics with honors. In Kinshasa, he then worked as a teacher assistant.
Political career
His political career began in 1984 at the Kamerhe party UDPS ( Union pour la Démocratie et le Progres Social). At the end of the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko, he joined the RSF ( Rassemblement des forces Sociales et Federalistes ) and was President of the JUSORAL ( Jeunesse de l' Union de l' opposition radicals Sacrée et Allies ) ( JUSORAL ), a political opposotionellen Youth Alliance. He became director of the Ministry of Environment and 1994 coordinator of the Prime Minister in 1993. Between 1994 and 1995 he was director of the Ministry of Education.
Under Laurent Kabila was Kamerhe the chief of staff of Etienne -Richard Mbaya, Minister of Reconstruction and between 1997 and 1998 Director of National Service, a quasi -military service of Laurent Kabila. Then he was financial adviser to the Ministry of Defence, and finally deputy commissioner for affairs of the UN MONUC deployment.
As a founding member of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy ( PPRD ) in 2002, Vital Kamerhe one of the leaders of the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was Commissioner-General of the Government and responsible for overseeing the peace process in the Great Lakes region. He is regarded as one of the chief negotiators of the peace agreement of 2002. In 2003 he was appointed Minister of Press and Information in the transitional government.
In June 2004, he was designated as Secretary-General of the PPRD. He held this position until September 14, 2007. During the presidential election in 2006 Kamerhe supported the election campaign of the current president Joseph Kabila ducks and was regarded as the mastermind in the background. In December 2007 he was elected President of the National Assembly. On March 25, 2009, he had, however, due to massive pressure from Kabila to resign from the post after he had expressed in a radio interview of the government towards critical. After that, he stayed primarily in Canada, until he finally announced on 14 December 2010 to withdraw from the PPRD and to establish the UNC ( Union pour la nation congolaise ) as a new opposition party. With the UNC he would compete in the 2011 election as opposition candidate to Kabila.