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![[MLC flag]](../images/c/cd}mlc.gif)
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)
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
![[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-K. 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. IMO 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, 9 Oct 2002
I was living in Congo when the name and flag of the country changed.
An MPR (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 memebers
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 imagin 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 eleborate that manifest).
Guy De Boeck, 18 Sep 2005
![[MPR flag]](../images/c/cd}mpr.jpg)
by Guy De Boeck, 18 Sep 2005
That is the real MPR party flag : the same as the national
one, but without the yellow circle and with a bigger arm. it exited
BEFORE the Zaire flag.
Guy De Boeck, 18 Sep 2005
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