Dieudonné Kayembe Mbandakulu

Who is Dieudonné Kayembe Mbandakulu?

Dieudonne Kayembe Mbandakulu Tshisuma was the Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since June 12, 2007, he has the rank of Lieutenant General.

Dieudonne Kayembe was born on April 9, 1945 at Élisabethville, Haut-Katanga District. He attended primary school at the Athénée de Lubumbashi, which he followed with secondary schooling at Mbuji-Mayi in Kasai-Oriental Province. He later entered the prestigious École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr officer academy, in France. After he finished that training, he was admitted to a branch school, specifically the Cavalry School at Saumur, still in France.

Since that time pursuing a military career, Kayembe entered, later on, after passing the entrance exam, the Command and General Staff College at Fort Knox, in the United States. Following his training in that school he received his staff officer’s brevet.