Joseph Kabila

Rwandan intelligence scores full marks for orchestrating the surrender of Hutu rebel leader Paul Rwarakabije on 16 November and wrongfooting both the United Nations and President Joseph Kabila's power-sharing government in Kinshasa...

President Joseph Kabila's planned meeting with United States President George Bush on 5 November is a personal triumph for Israeli diamond trader and Congo's ambassador at large Dan Gertler who along with his business partner Chaim Leibovitz has been cultivating White House contacts for several months...

The state coffers are effectively empty which did not deter President Joseph Kabila from apportioning operating budgets (we are told) of $1 million per month for the presidency and $500 000 for the four Vice-Presidencies...

Joseph Kabila's enigma persists: the unanswered questions about his origins his father's death and to whom who he owes his meteoric rise from relative obscurity in Tanzania a decade ago to Congo's état major and now State President...

Rabat gave sanctuary to the late Congo-Kinshasa President Mobutu Sese Seko but is maintaining close security ties with President Joseph Kabila (AC Vol 44 No 17)...

Supporters of President Joseph Kabila claim he was heading for Congo-Brazzaville to organise a coup by Mobutu loyalists but while human rights activists would like him to explain the Garde Civile's May 1990 massacre of students at Lubumbashi University Baramoto is unpopular even with Kabila's opponents and may no longer pose much of a threat (AC Vol 44 No 17)...

Having given sanctuary to late President Mobutu Sese Seko Morocco is maintaining close ties with Joseph Kabila some of whose intelligence and close protection agents are being trained by Moroccan security...

At the apex stand President Joseph Kabila and the old Kinshasa cabal close to Angola and Zimbabwe...

The CNDD-FDD is receiving weapons via supply lines from Kamina in Congo-Kinshasa suggesting that despite denials forces loyal to Congolese President Joseph Kabila are still assisting the militia...

Sewing up the hierarchy The top five government jobs are sewn up: President (since 26 January 2001) Joseph Kabila; the Vice-Presidents: Arthur Zahidi N'goma (civilian opposition); Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi (government); Jean-Pierre Bemba (Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo); Azarias Ruberwa (Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma)...

His latest offence was to form an alliance with Jean-Pierre Bemba leader of the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo and a bitter opponent of both Congo-Kinshasa's President Joseph Kabila and President Idriss Déby of Chad...