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Tryphon Kin-Kiey Mulumba is a politician from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). On 28 April 2012, he was appointed Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and New Information and Communication Technologies (Matata I government) and on 7 December 2014 Minister of Relations with Parliament (Matata II government), positions he left in December 2016 at the signing of the African Union City Dialogue agreement when the post of Prime Minister was given to the opposition. He is First Vice-President of the political grouping ABCE, Alliance des Bâtisseurs pour un Congo Émergent, which he left when he presented his candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic on 7 August 2018, to everyone's surprise, convinced, he declared, that the political options of President Joseph Kabila's caciques are likely to lead the country to civil war. Together with the opposition candidate, Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, he forms an electoral coalition CACH, Cap pour le Changement. Together with Vital Kamerhe-Lwa-Kanyinginyi Nkingi, he is the third personality in this coalition.

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 '''Tryphon Kin-Kiey Mulumba''' is a politician from the [[DR Congo|Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)]]. On 28 April 2012, he was appointed Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and New Information and Communication Technologies (Matata I government) and on 7 December 2014 Minister of Relations with Parliament (Matata II government), positions he left in December 2016 at the signing of the African Union City Dialogue agreement when the post of Prime Minister was given to the opposition. He is First Vice-President of the political grouping ABCE, Alliance des Bâtisseurs pour un Congo Émergent, which he left when he presented his candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic on 7 August 2018, to everyone's surprise, convinced, he declared, that the political options of President Joseph Kabila's caciques are likely to lead the country to civil war. Together with the opposition candidate, Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, he forms an electoral coalition CACH, Cap pour le Changement. Together with Vital Kamerhe-Lwa-Kanyinginyi Nkingi, he is the third personality in this coalition.
-== Biography ==
-A student at the Institut Sainte Marie de Yasa, a school of the Congregations of the Josephite Brothers, in the Catholic Mission Yasa, Masi-Manimba territory, in the present-day Kwilu province, in [[Bandundu Province|Grand Bandundu]], and then at the famous Collège Albert 1er, a school of the Jesuit Fathers in Kinshasa, Tryphon Kin-kiey Mulumba was introduced to journalism as a student as a rewriter in one of the largest newspapers in the country, the daily "Le Progrès" of Raphaël Mpanumpanu, before managing the weekly edition. He was the only candidate from the Congolese capital Kinshasa to be admitted to the CFJ competition, the Centre de Formation des Journalistes 33, rue du Louvre in Paris, thanks to a French scholarship from the CIEF and obtained a Bachelor's degree in journalism. He enrolled at the University of Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne and in 1979 obtained a DÉSS (Diplôme d'Études Supérieures Spécialisées), then in 1981 a Doctorate in Political Science, option Political Communication. Title of his thesis: "La communication politique au Zaïre", with honours. He did two internships at the Parisian daily "Le Monde", was employed in London from 1980 to 1981 at the press group Africa Journal Ltd, in Tottenham Court Road, and returned to Congo-Zaïre where he was Professor of Journalism, General History of the Press, the Table of the Contemporary Press, and Public Relations at the ISTI, the Institute of Sciences and Techniques of Information. From 1982 to 1993, he was Editor and Sales Executive of the Reuters world agency. In 1989, he created the Finance Press Group, publisher of the newspaper Le Soft international, an information periodical1 (originally Finance, then Le Soft de Finance, then Le Soft Grands Lacs). He is President of the UIJPLF, the International Union of Journalists and the French Language Press. In 1997, he was Minister of Information and spokesman of the short-lived National Government of General Norbert Likulia Bolongo Lingbangi (which lasted only 45 days with the advance of Laurent Désiré Kabila in 1997 and the fall of the Mobutu regime), known for having announced the flight of President Mobutu Sese Seko abroad. He went into exile in Europe. He then joined the Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie (RCD), based in Goma and supported by Rwanda. He is Head of Department in charge of Communication and Culture in the RCD-Goma, which he leaves in reaction to the massacre of Congolese policemen perpetrated in the town of Kisangani and creates the RCD-Congo. He returned to Kinshasa and in 2006 was one of the few candidates to be elected as an independent deputy (Masi-Manimba electoral district, Kwilu district, Bandundu province) in the National Assembly during the first legislature. On 30 September 2008, he created the political party Le Parti pour l'Action, Parti du Crabe, P.A in acronym approved by ministerial decree n°047/2008 of 30 September 2008). Member of the Political Bureau of the Presidential Majority, he is in 2011, during the second legislature, the only MP re-elected in the electoral constituency of Masi-Manimba, Kwilu District, Bandundu province among the seven MPs of the previous legislature. He is one of the few re-elected in this second legislature, about 50 out of 500. On 28 April 2012, he was appointed Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and New Information and Communication Technologies (Matata I government) and on 7 December 2014 Minister of Relations with Parliament (Matata II government), positions he left in December 2016 at the signing of the African Union City Dialogue agreement when the post of Prime Minister was given to the opposition. He is First Vice-President of the political grouping ABCE, Alliance des Bâtisseurs pour un Congo Émergent, which he left when he presented his candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic on 7 August 2018, convinced, he declared, that the political options of President Joseph Kabila's caciques are likely to lead the country to civil war. Together with the opposition candidate, Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, he forms an electoral coalition CACH, Cap pour le Changement. Together with Vital Kamerhe-Lwa-Kanyinginyi Nkingi, he is the third personality in this coalition.