Joseph Kabila

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...

President Joseph Kabila has refused to accept calls from Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme...

The final decision will be made by President Joseph Kabila...

He later made clear to the Belgian parliament that he was talking about President Joseph Kabila: 'Just because he was democratically elected does not mean that Kabila owns the Congo'...

So far President Joseph Kabila's government has not commented on these investigations but it has already cast doubt on the probity of UN operations in Congo-Kinshasa...