Joseph Kabila

Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler and South African commodity trader Ivan Glasenberg who have done far better than their corporate rivals out of Joseph Kabila's reign in Congo-Kinshasa are rethinking their strategy...

The deal that President Joseph Kabila agreed on 31 December with the opposition for elections this year and the end of his presidency depended on swift implementation...

If Pham gets the post US policy could harden against Congo-Kinshasa where he wants much more pressure on President Joseph Kabila to leave office...

Just minutes before midnight on 19 December as the seconds ticked down on the last day of his constitutionally permitted second term of office President Joseph Kabila Kabange's Information Minister Lambert Mende Omalanga announced on state television that a new transitional government had been formed...

Friends of the diamond-dealer say he has never really forgiven Joseph Kabila since his father Laurent confiscated a 266-carat diamond he had found in 2000 and sold it abroad for an estimated US$20 million...

Kodjo brokered an agreement last October but this had little effect and was widely thought to play to President Joseph Kabila's tune...

While the end of President Joseph Kabila's two terms of office on 19 December is set to spark mass opposition protests less notice has been paid to the growth of separate conflicts all over the country...

Although Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo Mapon resigned on 14 November and announced the dissolution of his government President Joseph Kabila Kabange surprised everyone three days later by naming his successor Samy Badibanga Ntita...

A raft of corruption claims is undermining President Joseph Kabila's campaign to extend his stay in office for at least two more years...

Violent clashes in Kinshasa between protestors and police last month show how the row over President Joseph Kabila's plans to delay elections could trigger a crisis across the country – from the capital in the west to the copper-rich Katanga region in the east where opposition support is growing sharply...

The 83-year-old Tshisekedi a mainstay of opposition politics since 1980 invited the leaders of all the main parties and factions opposing President Joseph Kabila to a conference at a luxury hotel on the banks of Lake Genval 20 minutes from Brussels...