While fanfares sounded and banners flew at Kololo airstrip with heads of state Robert Mugabe Goodluck Jonathan Mwai Kibaki and Joseph Kabila in attendance a massive welcoming party was under way on the other side of town for Kizza Besigye...
Vol 52 No 8 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Joseph Kabila and his supporters will restrict democratic representation only to the rich if a bill sponsored by Kabila-stalwart Evariste Boshab goes through...
Vol 52 No 6 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The raid on one of President Joseph Kabila’s homes came in the early afternoon of 27 February a Sunday when a couple of dozen soldiers forced their way past a roadblock manned by the Garde républicaine in the smart Gombé district of central Kinshasa and were stopped at a second barrier...
Vol 52 No 6 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Joseph Kabila’s best troops are Katangese and Tutsi of the Conseil national pour la défense du peuple who have joined the Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo...
Vol 52 No 6 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The 28 February Conseil supérieur de la défense brought together President Joseph Kabila’s top security team...
However the nationalist and anti-Western stance of the regimes of President Joseph Kabila and President Robert Mugabe earns some street credibility and they can call on China for at least some of their funding...
Vol 52 No 4 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The men of President Joseph Kabila’s Republican Guard taken by surprise withdrew but took control again at dawn...
Vol 52 No 2 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Joseph Kabila has virtually ensured his re-election on 27 November by getting Parliament to eliminate the inconvenience of a second electoral round (AC Vol 52 No 1)...
Vol 52 No 1 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The main opposition party Jean-Pierre Bemba’s Mouvement de libération du Congo (MLC) supported by several local non-governmental organisations claims that the serving President (and candidate) Joseph Kabila will unlawfully prolong his time in office which is due to end on 6 December 2011...
This was one of the projects touted as the most promising during South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s visit to Kinshasa in July when he met President Joseph Kabila...