Moving on in Bas-CongoPresident Joseph Kabila's wife Olive Lembe di Sita Kabila is from Bas-Congo...
Vol 54 No 21 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The Speaker of Parliament Aubin Minaku shocked the country on 11 October when he announced in an interview on Radio France Internationale that President Joseph Kabila would leave office after the 2016 presidential election...
Vol 54 No 18 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Establishing national unity under a modified constitution is President Joseph Kabila Kabange's main concern just now because that would give him the best chance of winning the elections due next year...
If President Joseph Kabila accepts the UN's insistence on a negotiated settlement a more bullish approach from Congo's delegation can be expected when talks resume in Kampala...
Vol 54 No 16 |
- SIERRA LEONE
Currently plotting to change their countries' constitutions are Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré Congo-Kinshasa's Joseph Kabila and Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou-Nguesso – all leaders who preside over governments with appalling records on human rights and accountability...
Vol 54 No 13 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Its outline had been set out at a meeting in March 2011 between South African Energy's Minister Elizabeth Dipuo Peters and her Congolese counterpart Gilbert Tshiongo Tshibi Nkubula wa Ntumba during a summit between Presidents Jacob Zuma and Joseph Kabila Kabange...
Vol 54 No 11 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Joseph Kabila’s financial and political advisor the late Augustin Katumba Mwanke played a direct role in actions against First Quantum and worked closely on many of the other deals with Gertler (AC Vol 53 No 4 The trouble after Katumba)...
Vol 54 No 9 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
A senior member of M23 leader Sultani Makenga’s team is in Kampala thrashing out new proposals with M23’s Ugandan and Rwandan backers to put to President Joseph Kabila’s government Africa Confidential has learned...
President Joseph Kabila Bozizé’s only firm friend in the region is said to have given his family sanctuary in Congo...
Vol 54 No 7 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Joseph Kabila has something to be thankful for...