Gertrude Kitembo Mpala (born 1958) is a politician and businesswoman in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[4] On 30 June 2003 Kitembo was named as Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[5] A 2002-3 United Nations panel investigating into the exploitation of mineral resources in DRC recommended financial sanctions against a company that Kitembo set up, the Congo Holding Development Company, a mining and trading firm based near the Rwandan border in Goma.
The panel's confidential report to the UN security council claimed that the company was selling minerals to fund arms for the Congolese National Army (ANC), the military wing of RCD-Goma.
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