The Bembe people (Babembe in the plural) are an ethnic group based in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Kigoma Region of Tanzania.

In 1991, the Bembe population of the DRC was estimated to number 252,000 and around 1.5 million in 2005.

They are representative of many ethnic traditions, including pre-Lega, Boyo-Kunda, Hemba and Bemba.

The women cultivated the crops and the men hunted, fished and other entrepreneurship business.

Vegetable-based foods range from sombe (a stew of pounded cassava lived preferably with ground up nuts and palm oil) and mlonda.