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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...