Joseph Kabila

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...

Kazadi is like a second father to President Joseph Kabila...

CONTRACTS AND THE NATIONAL INTEREST President Joseph Kabila and the ruling Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et le Développement (PPRD) have called for the United Nations’ peacekeepers to quit Congo-Kinshasa as soon as possible to convey a symbolic reassertion of the country’s autonomy...

On 25 April Monuc gratified President Joseph Kabila by announcing the imminent departure of Senegalese troops from Dingila in Orientale Province 500 kilometres north of Kisangani...

Banda is popular with fellow leaders in the region including Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe South Africa’s Jacob Zuma Swaziland’s King Mswati and Congo-Kinshasa’s Joseph Kabila...

Waiting for Kabila President Joseph Kabila is blocking exploration contracts that were granted several years ago and the lack of his approval has left several companies hanging on in Kinshasa hoping he will sign soon...

The disputes about Congo-Kinshasa’s oil concessions licences claims and terms have grown so tangled that we hear President Joseph Kabila may ask Uganda for help with a review...

A decree is awaited from President Joseph Kabila and both sides are lobbying as high as they can reach...