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Eugene Ipavec, 09 Aug 2006
The flag of the MLC has changed. The flag has a blue background, featuring
the letters MLC on yellow on the left, plus the map of Congo outlined in yellow
and a yellow ant. See the MLC official website at
http://www.mlc-congo.net/
Esteban Rivera, 09 Aug 2006
![[MLC flag]](../images/c/cd}mlc.gif)
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by Jarig Bakker, 10 Jul 2004
Flag of "Mouvement de Libération du Congo" (Congolese
Liberation Movement) is from http://www.managingbusiness.com/mlc/
(no longer available, ed.)
Dov Gutterman, 25 May 2002
![[UFERI flag]](../images/c/cd}uferi.gif)
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by Rob Raeside, 12 Jul 2004
From the intermittent series on maps on flags provided by Mason Kaye.
This is the flag of UFERI, (L'Union des Fédéralistes et
Républicains Indépendants - Union of Independent Federalists
and Republicans). Seen on Belgian TV on August, 1992 (hence Zaire - not
Dem. Rep. of Congo). Outline image provided - coloured by me. I guess this
was seen as a vertical flag. Yellow map of Zaire in center. Disc
is red, half circles are blue. Red circular border. White background, blue
writing: UFERI - NOTRE ESPOIR (our hope).
Source: Michel Lupant.
Rob Raeside, 12 Jul 2004
![[MPR flag]](../images/c/cd}mpr.jpg)
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by Guy De Boeck, 18 Sep 2005
I was living in Congo when the name and flag of the country changed.
An MPR flag (Mobutu's only allowed party) already existed. It had the same flag
as what became the Zaire flag, but without the yellow circle: thus
green with an arm holding a torch with a red flame. And that stayed the
flag of the party.
As long as the unique party remained, the cockade worn by its members
was that same design : the torch on a green background, on an oval little
jewel made of copper. For dignitaries, it was better carved, and protected
by transparent plastic.
Lots of books, reviews or papers from the Mobutu period also wore that
sign : a green band with the arm and the torch.
I cannot imagine where the so called "party flag" designed by Mr Martins
according to Mr. Bliss has been found or fancied.
If that design has something in common with Mobutu and his party, then
the only period it could be related to is the period 1965 - 1967, when
he founded an organization called CVR (Corps des Volontaire de la Republique
= Corps of Republican Volunteers). But the green and torch flag appeared
in the same time as the "Manifeste de la N'sele", at the foundation
of the MPR party.
(N'sele is the name of a village, where Mobutu gathered number of politicians
to elaborate that manifest).
Guy De Boeck, 18 Sep 2005
That is the real MPR party flag : the same as the former national
one, but without the yellow circle and with a bigger arm. This flag existed
BEFORE the Zaire flag.
Guy De Boeck, 18 Sep 2005
The National Alliance's Party for Unity (Parti de l'Alliance Nationale pour
l'Unité) is a centrist political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
founded in 2003. It has 190 candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections
in July 2006 and has decided to support President Kabila in the forthcominh
presidential elections (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Alliance_Party_for_Unity).
Article 3 : La devise du PANU est : « UNITE – LIBERTE –DEVELOPPEMENT ». son
emblème est un drapeau de fond blanc, bordé de onze (11) étoiles dorées
représentant les onze provinces du pays, avec au milieu, une flèche rouge
orientée vers le haut, signe d'un mouvement ascensionnel (see http://www.panu-cd.com/statuts.htm)
which is translated as :
"a white flag, bordered with 11 gold stars for the eleven provinces of the
country surrounding a red arrow pointing upwards" (rough translation) see
it as a shield at http://www.panu-cd.com/.
"Prometevsberg", 06 Aug 2006
image by Esteban
Rivera,
06 Aug 2006
The Parti du peuple pour la reconstruction et la démocratie (PPRD)
(Peoples Party for reconstruction and democracy) of President Joseph Kabila
uses a yellow flag with the party symbol in the centre. This is a blue map image of the
country with two stylized hands in red and yellow clasping each
other. The party acronym is found between the wrists and above the symbol on the
yellow field.
"Prometevsberg", 06 Aug 2006
The PPRD was officially registered with the Ministry of the Interior by Decree
031/2002 on 02 April 2002. The statutes of the party should prescribe the
emblem of the party in Article 12, but this is left blank ("The emblem of the
party shall be...) on the online version of the statutes.
The party was founded by supporters of Joseph Kabila and members of his
government. It should follow the tracks of Patrice Lumumba, the Prime Minister
murdered in 1961, and Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Joseph's father.
Ivan Sache, 12 Aug 2006
Ruberwa explained the new flag as follows:
- the dove represents peace because " we are campaigning for peace.
We fought war for peace, this was the price to pay". "[...] The dove shows
that even in a so-called peace time, we have to search for the real peace,
that is the inner peace." Moreover the dove shall show that RCD is today
a tolerant and no longer a violent party.
- the palm tree represents democracy.
- the "bonne gouvernance" (good governing) is "a series of rules and
practices which give hope to our Republic and our citizens and determination
to our youth". "All members of the RCD who would act again the "bonne gouvernance"
will be sacked.
Source: a paper by Médard Muyaya in "Le Potentiel" (Kinshasa,
28 July 2005)
Ivan Sache, 18 Aug 2005
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sent by Esteban Rivera, 06 Aug 2006
This is the flag of the Union pour la République-Mouvement National (Union for
the Republic-National Movement) (UNIR-MN) taken from the party's official website
at http://www.unir-mn.org/
Esteban Rivera, 06 Aug 2006
![[Unknown party flag]](../images/c/cd}mbtu.gif)
by António Martins, 22 Nov 1998, after image sent by by Nathan
Bliss, 7 Jan 1997
My question here is what really is this flag, because is surely not
Mobutu’s party flag. Not only it has no resemblance to the Zaire flag,
but also it features a map of Zaire / Congo-Kinshasa without the southern
secessionist provinces of
Katanga/Shaba,
Southern
Kasai and what seems to be part of Kivu,
something Mobutu would never had endorsed.
António Martins, 22 Nov 1998
It seems to me that that the map is just a distortion in order to fit
the flag (and the outspread hands). The long stretch into Zambia is there,
as well as the hiccups in the frontiers between Congo and Zambia. In my opinion it's
quite safe to assume that Nathan Bliss' image was a bit distorted and that
the real flag had the real map of Congo (or Zaïre) on it in red. Many
political flags produced by expatriates have been proved to be geographically
(or otherwise) incorrect.
Mobutu's party was the Popular Movement of the Revolution (Mouvement
Populaire de la Révolution), founded in 1967 as the principle
vehicle of the Mobutu regime. It was renamed in 1990 to Popular Movement
for Renewal (Mouvement Populaire Renouveau - MPR).
Jarig Bakker, 09 Oct 2002