The ‘Congo is not for sale' activist coalition brought together 51 civil claimants with anti-corruption groups who say that about US$60 million was diverted through the scheme including payments to a United Arab Emirates-based company LRPS linked to former President Joseph Kabila...
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Vol 67 No 18 |
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A three-month ‘National Dialogue' excluding rebels and loyalists to ex-president Joseph Kabila is meant to lead to a referendum on term limits – but the president's opponents walked out before the talks opened...
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Vol 67 No 12 |
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Yet the precedent of former President Joseph Kabila's era is anything to go by western patience for conflict delaying elections is not infinite...
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Vol 67 No 10 |
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Tshisekedi's position has been boosted by the United States' decision to impose sanctions on his predecessor Joseph Kabila as well as the Rwandan army for backsliding on the December peace agreement signed in Washington (Dispatches 4/5/26 Washington turns on Kabila as Trump raises the cost for Rwanda in eastern Congo)...
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Washington has sanctioned ex-president Joseph Kabila accusing him of sustaining the armed networks in the Kivus...
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Vol 67 No 7 |
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Former Katanga governor Moïse Katumbi who strongly opposed former President Joseph Kabila's efforts to change the constitution has recently voiced his opposition to a third term for Tshisekedi...
But the Catholic Church which helped block the third-term ambitions of former president Joseph Kabila is no longer the political force it was...
He insists his mission is to topple Tshisekedi and boosted his standing by recruiting the former Congo-K president Joseph Kabila to his ranks...
Adolphe Muzito – a former prime minister under Joseph Kabila and long-time protégé of Antoine Gizenga – returns as Minister of Budget...
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President Félix Tshisekedi is trying to shore up his position after reports that former president Joseph Kabila wants to return to Congolese politics after self-exile in South Africa...
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Kabila lurksOn 9 April former Congolese President Joseph Kabila announced that he would soon return to the country ‘from the east'...
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