Joseph Kabila

So the talks which began in Nairobi on 8 December were a big political risk especially for President Joseph Kabila...

In September after talks between President Joseph Kabila and Freeport’s President Richard Adkerson it was announced that the project would start development in 2009...

At the least Kagame is doing nothing to rein in Nkunda and he irritates Kinshasa by saying Congolese President Joseph Kabila's government is to blame because its own Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo are collaborating with the FDLR...

In 2003 the RCD then at peace with the Kinshasa government under President Joseph Kabila appointed him to command the North Kivu military district within the new national army...

President Joseph Kabila has asked Angola to send troops and equipment to help the government army tackle Nkunda; Luanda has not responded publicly but this could escalate into a regional war...

President Joseph Kabila’s government has not really tried: soon after a peace deal was signed in January it sent (useless) tanks to show it meant to go on fighting...

Admission of failure The resignation of Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga Fundji on 25 September launches a battle for succession that will probably strengthen President Joseph Kabila in the short term...

Joseph Kabila's rival Jean-Pierre Bemba is in The Hague awaiting trial by the International Criminal Court; the Secretary General of his Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) François Mwamba rightly described Gizenga's departure as an 'admission of failure'...

One partner is Dan Gertler who is good friends with Congolese President Joseph Kabila...

Some of these soldiers are due to come from President Joseph Kabila's Presidential Guard and are therefore likely to include Angolans...

The MLC also observes that Bemba was arrested while planning to return to Congo as head of the political opposition to President Joseph Kabila...