Joseph Kabila

The findings by a United Nations' investigation that extensive criminal networks inside Congo's army are raping and killing people and stealing minerals challenge President Joseph Kabila's position following his call for UN peacekeepers to leave by the end of next year...

President Joseph Kabila has set a deadline for the end of 2011...

However the formal communiqué at the end of President Joseph Kabila’s visit to his Angolan opposite number José Eduardo dos Santos on 20 September made the routine declarations of friendship and solidarity...

Presidents Joseph Kabila and Paul Kagame agreed on the move at a 6 September meeting during Kagame’s inauguration in Kigali...

He had been detained by President Joseph Kabila’s National Guard...

He recalls that in 2003 President Joseph Kabila had asked the UN to establish an international criminal tribunal to prosecute the perpetrators of crimes and was ignored while prosecutions before the International Court of Justice had limited results since Burundi Rwanda and some others do not recognise its jurisdiction...

President Joseph Kabila's government now has the distinction of facing three international court cases in which foreign companies accuse it of arbitrarily seizing their assets...

Some analysts claim that government unpredictability deters investors with the standard line: ‘President Joseph Kabila must play it straight or lose investment...

Father Apollinaire Malu Malu the CEI Chairman is widely blamed for trying to prolong President Joseph Kabila’s term in office which should end on 6 December 2011 the fifth anniversary of his swearing-in (see Box)...

He was Speaker of the National Assembly until March 2009 when he was voted out by President Joseph Kabila’s Parti du peuple pour la reconstruction et la démocratie (PPRD)...