Albert Nyembo

Nyembo went to school at the St. Boniface Institute in Élisabethville, capital of Katanga, then in the Belgian Congo. He obtained a degree from the school of telecommunication in Léopoldville, the colony's capital, in 1950. Before 1960, he was a civil servant and trade unionist in the Belgian Congo. In 1957, Nyembo founded the CONAKAT party together with Godefroid Munongo, Évariste Kimba, and Rodolphe Yav.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Lederer |first=A. |encyclopedia=Biographie Belge d'Outre-Mer |title=TSHOMBE (Moïse-Kapenda) |url=https://www.kaowarsom.be/documents/bbom/Tome_VIIa/Tshombe.Moise_Kapenda.pdf |access-date=15 January 2021 |language=fr |date=31 March 1970 |publisher=Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences |volume=VII-A |page=462}} This occurred within a context of anti-Kasaï sentiments.{{cite book|editor=Jean Omasombo Tshonda |title=Haut-Katanga: Lorsque richesses économiques et pouvoirs politiques forcent une identité régionale. Tome 1: Cadre naturel, peuplement et politique |url=https://www.africamuseum.be/sites/default/files/media/docs/research/publications/rmca/online/monographies-provinces/Haut-Katanga_Tome%201_WEB.pdf |year=2018|publisher=Africamuseum |page=236}} Nyembo was the President of a group of Hemba people from Kongolo, Assobako, which went on to adhere to CONAKAT.{{cite book|author1=Jules Chomé |title=Moise Tshombe et I'escroquerie katangaise|url=https://issuu.com/tetitatutis/docs/tshombe_et_l_escroquerie|year=1966|publisher=Éditions de la fondation J. Jacquemotte|page=77}}

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During the communal election organised before independence, he was elected as a municipal councilor and member of the Élisabethville council.

In 1960, he was elected as a national MP for the Tanganyika constituency. He was appointed Secretary of State for National Defense as a CONAKAT party member in the Lumumba Government.{{cite book|author=Norbert X Mbu-Mputu|title=Patrice lumumba : discours, lettres, Textes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ppzAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|date=31 August 2010|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-1-4092-9381-1|page=10}} He was a Secretary of State, since the portfolio of National Defense was added to the Prime Minister's.

Eleven days after Congo's independence, Moïse Tshombe declared the independence of the State of Katanga. Nyembo resigned from his position in the central government{{sfn|Hoskyns|1965|p=145}} and became the Secretary of State of Public Service for the Katangese regime, his deputy chef de cabinet was Léonard Ilunga.{{cite book |last=Weber |first=Guy |author-link=Guy Weber |date=1983 |title=Le Katanga de Moïse Tshombe ou le drame de la loyauté |url= |location=Brussels |publisher=Éditions Louis Musin |page=201 |isbn=2-87083-013-0}} At the start of the secession, four delegations were sent out to explain the government's point of view. The second delegation, led by Minister of Foreign Affairs Évariste Kimba, included Nyembo, Gabriel Kitenge, Cyprien Kayumba Mfumu wa Bwana, Léonard Kanyangala, and an ordinance officer, and left for Europe at the start of August.{{cite book|editor=Jean Omasombo Tshonda |title=Haut-Katanga: Lorsque richesses économiques et pouvoirs politiques forcent une identité régionale. Tome 1: Cadre naturel, peuplement et politique |url=https://www.africamuseum.be/sites/default/files/media/docs/research/publications/rmca/online/monographies-provinces/Haut-Katanga_Tome%201_WEB.pdf |year=2018|publisher=Africamuseum |page=349}}

After the secession ended, he was appointed Minister of National Economy in the Cyrille Adoula government of the reunified Congo. In 1965, he became a national MP for Tanganyika.

Nyembo was also active as a manager, as a President of the Compagnie du chemin de fer du Congo supérieur aux Grands Lacs africains in 1964 and President of {{ill|Brasseries du Katanga|fr}} in 1973.{{cite journal |author=CRISP |date=1966 |title=Annexe 3ter: Dossier C.F.L.: Interview de M. Nyembo |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-courrier-hebdomadaire-du-crisp-1966-14-page-1.htm?try_download=1 |publisher=Cairn.info |journal=Courrier Hebdomadaire du C.R.I.S.P. |volume=14—15 |issue=321–322 |pages=41–42 |doi=10.3917/cris.321.0001 |access-date=15 January 2021|doi-access=free }} During the national elections for the Bureau politique (political office) in 1970, he was elected a political commissioner for the Shaba region. He served for the Bureau politique of the sole party Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR) from 22 November 1977 to 18 February 1981. He was a member of the Central Committee of MPR since the announcement of its composition on 2 September 1980. He was President of the Financial and Economic Commission from the beginning until March 1984.{{cite book| last= Kimbulu Moyanso wa Lokwa |first=Jean-Pierre|authorlink=Jean-Pierre Kimbulu Moyanso wa Lokwa|title =Who's who in Zaire: dictionnaire biographique| publisher = Editions New Fashions Media|date =1987| language = French| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=QxAQAQAAMAAJ|location=Brussels}} His mandate at the Central Committee was renewed on 28 January 1985.

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• {{cite journal |author=CRISP |date=1966 |title=Annexe 3ter: Dossier C.F.L.: Interview de M. Nyembo |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-courrier-hebdomadaire-du-crisp-1966-14-page-1.htm?try_download=1 |publisher=Cairn.info |journal=Courrier Hebdomadaire du C.R.I.S.P. |volume=14—15 |issue=321–322 |pages=41–42 |doi=10.3917/cris.321.0001 |access-date=15 January 2021|doi-access=free }}

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• {{cite book |last=Hoskyns |first=Catherine |title=The Congo Since Independence: January 1960 – December 1961 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=London |date=1965 |oclc=414961 }}

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