Joseph Kabila

President Joseph Kabila's government is set for another round of legal clashes with foreign companies...

During the trouble a soldier and a policeman were killed and members of President Joseph Kabila’s family took refuge with the Presidential Guards in Kibembe camp...

Like his father Joseph Kabila is identified with the Balubakat the antisecessionist Katangan Baluba people from the north of the province...

A public square that once bore a statue of Leopold II the Belgian king who carved out the country as his personal possession in 1885 has been renamed Place du 30 juin; from it above new fountains a balloon emblazoned with the face of President Joseph Kabila flies high and pretty...

It took personal missions from the IMF managing director Dominique Strauss- Kahn and the World Bank president Robert Zoellick to Kinshasa to get the current government under President Joseph Kabila to cut back the scope of the Chinese barter deal (Africa-Asia Confidential Vol 2 No 8)...

On 18 June President Joseph Kabila confirmed the awards in a decree but neither the state’s Congolaise des hydrocarbures (Cohydro) or oil ministry staffers were involved in the highly secretive negotiations...

Egypt’s intelligence chief Omar Suleiman flew into Burundi to dissuade the regime from signing; at the same time Ethiopia appealed to President Joseph Kabila’s government in Congo-Kinshasa to sign...

The effort to persuade President Joseph Kabila to accept the terms for debt relief which included scaling back Chinese countertrade projects brought both Bank President Robert Zoellick and IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn to Kinshasa to press their case...

Many suspect the long arm of Augustin Katumba Mwanke an advisor to President Joseph Kabila and a minister during his father Laurent-Désiré’s presidency who is known to be close to the Gécamines President (AC Vol 48 No 11 Dollars and mines)...

Much of it is aimed personally at President Joseph Kabila Kabange who has been in power since the murder of his father President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in January 2001...

A handful of people mostly unelected associates of President Joseph Kabila wield the real power; most of the appointed ministers have little practical power...

President Joseph Kabila’s team wanted to be sure that Mwana Africa and Mpinga would not emerge as an independent financial power especially in Kasaï Oriental Province...