Joseph Kabila

President Joseph Kabila’s presidential team has tended to yield to pressure from Luanda to the indignation of its opponents...

The government claims that the opposition is preparing an uprising and the government of neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville has accused President Joseph Kabila of looking for a way to prevent the parliamentary and presidential elections going ahead...

On 5 September a crowd of supporters of President Joseph Kabila’s Parti du peuple pour la reconstruction et le développement pelted about 1 000 supporters of Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba outside their party headquarters...

Sources close to Bemba the President of the Mouvement de libération du Congo a former national Vice-President and electoral opponent of President Joseph Kabila in 2006 say he believes he may stand since he is still unconvicted and so his political and civil rights should be unaffected...

Last year the government of Congo-Kinshasa sold – on direct instructions from President Joseph Kabila we hear – two disputed oil blocks to firms owned by the Zuma’s nephew Khulubuse Zuma and Zondwa Mandela Madiba’s grandson...

Mystery surrounds a sale by the state-owned Générale des Carrières et des Mines to a company linked to Dan Gertler a close friend of President Joseph Kabila...

Angola helped the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila to power in Kinshasa in 1997 and then supported his son President Joseph Kabila against his rival Jean-Pierre Bemba in 2007...

Luanda is said to favour Vital Kamerhe a former ally of Joseph Kabila’s and the Honorary President of the National Assembly founder and leader of the Union pour la nation congolaise who served under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent Kabila...

President Joseph Kabila’s government had already banned mining in the province from September 2010 to March 2011...

There is speculation that the seizure of Chicaia is a gesture by President Joseph Kabila to appease Luanda...

Congo-Kinshasa faces a harsh choice: should the CENI organise elections at breakneck speed to meet December’s constitutional deadline or should President Joseph Kabila’s government try to find majority support in Parliament to back an extension of his mandate...