He is also a director of Katanga and Recylex and is chairman of Mopani.
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But the government says the Mai Mai are terrorizing people in remote parts of mineral-rich Katanga Province.
Similar scenes have unfolded throughout Katanga province as people flee the military offensive against the Mai Mai.
And the Congolese army recently launched an offensive to drive militias from the Katanga province in the country's southeast.
Fighters entered the city, in the mineral-rich Katanga province, and opened fire on Congolese army and police killing four, officials said.
However, Katanga Governor Moise Katumbi told AFP news agency that the army had surrounded some of the fighters and forced them to surrender to UN peacekeepers.
The last time Katanga tried to go it alone, in the early 1960s, it was forced back into Congo with the assistance of the United Nations.
RCD's hold in the east, and supported a rebel offensive on the southern provinces of Kasai and Katanga, which include the diamond and copper mines essential for Mr Kabila's survival.
It owns stakes in several important mining and metals companies like Russia's United Company Rusal, Australia's Minara Resources and Katanga Mining, which has operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Club president and sponsor Moise Katumbi, the governor of Katanga province, had made it clear that he would be happy for Mputu to leave if the team became African champions.
Fighting between the M23 and the army has displaced close to a million people in North Kivu province and more than 300, 000 in the southeastern province of Katanga, according to the United Nations.
Yet Katanga has enjoyed relative peace in recent years, in large part thanks to the province's popular governor Moise Katumbi, a billionaire Roman Abramovich-esque character who has regulated the region's previously chaotic natural mineral extraction and bankrolled TP Mazembe in the process.
The foundation is also involved in a major project that will see the construction of an ecological school for 100 children in the Katanga province in the south of the DRC, the area where Coursaris was born and spent her early childhood.
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