Joseph Kabila

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...

The streets of Kinshasa were eerily quiet for hours on 15 November after the Commission Electorale Indépendente (CEI) had announced that Joseph Kabila had won the second round of the elections with 58% against his rival Jean-Pierre Bemba's 42%...

In 2002 Joseph Kabila followed IMF-inspired controls on the money supply and inflation dropped to single figures...

Congolese President Joseph Kabila's campaign helicopter is at the centre of a legal battle between Belgian businessman Philippe de Moerloose and Guinea's Paramount Airlines' Ismaël Doukouré...

Meanwhile in North Kivu Tutsi dissident General Laurent Nkunda now loosely allied to Bemba accused President Joseph Kabila of planning to send Hutu soldiers against him and provoke a Tutsi-Hutu war...

Instead there will be a run-off between Joseph Kabila (45 per cent) and Jean-Pierre Bemba (20 per cent) on 29 October...

From the beginning the Ugandan side has stressed it wants to keep the military option open a point reaffirmed by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni last week when he said that Congo's President Joseph Kabila and Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba (both awaiting election results) had agreed in principle to take military action against LRA positions in Congo if talks fail...

Two figures - President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba - are dominating Congolese politics after the 30 July elections which have been hailed as a success by United Nations (UN) and the United States' Carter Center despite huge organisational problems...

One apocryphal story circulating in Kinshasa is that one of the old guard supporters of Laurent-Désiré Kabila took Joseph Kabila aside and pointing to his father's mausoleum explained to him that 'they' would bulldoze the mausoleum if he lost the presidency...

The Khartoum-based Al Da'wa al Islamiya (Islamic Call) has say Congolese sources received diplomatic status from President Joseph Kabila's government...

The presidential frontrunner is incumbent Joseph Kabila 35 who enjoys the blessings - if not backing - of France Belgium the United States South Africa and Angola...