Dieudonne Kayembe Mbandakulu Tshisuma (born 9 April 1945) was the Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He later entered the prestigious École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr officer academy, 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.
After the arrival in power of Laurent Kabila in May 1997, then-Colonel Kayembe was named deputy director of the Defence Minister’s office, and promoted to Brigadier General.
On 12 June 2007 he was raised in grade to Lieutenant General and named eighteenth Chief of Staff of the FARDC by President Joseph Kabila, supreme commander of the armed forces.