Joseph Kabila

President Joseph Kabila's Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie (PPRD) leads the dominant parliamentary coalition...

With the elections over President Joseph Kabila's government can use its legitimacy to crush all dissent not only oppositionist Jean-Pierre Bemba's armed guards but unarmed protestors too...

The bloody shoot-out in Kinshasa on 22-23 March confirmed President Joseph Kabila's grip on the country...

Denis Kalume from President Joseph Kabila's party played down the affair saying that if there had been an incursion by Angolan troops their local commander was to blame...

The result may be the retrospective legalisation of concessions that President Joseph Kabila's government awarded after it had imposed the moratorium...

President Joseph Kabila's Alliance de la Majorité Présidentielle (AMP) grabbed all the top jobs...

The presidential alliance takes 18 places 15 of those for President Joseph Kabila's own Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie (PPRD) and they are: Chikez Diemu Defence; Salomon Banamuhere Baliene Energy; General Denis Kalume Numbi Interior...

President Joseph Kabila announced in early January that his government would review three copper and cobalt mining contracts (Phelps Dodge Kinross-Forrest and Global Enterprise Corporation) which the World Bank identified as lacking transparency (AC Vol 47 No 23)...

The big question for Congo-Kinshasa and the region this year is whether President Joseph Kabila can consolidate power after last year’s elections...

The true test of the new government’s commitment to transparency will be the fate of President Joseph Kabila’s advisor Augustin Katumba Mwanke...