Joseph Kabila

President Joseph Kabila has convinced international donors that he is worth backing...

The man to beat was once Mobutu then Laurent Kabila; now it is Joseph Kabila...

On President Joseph Kabila's recent trips to Western capitals he often sat with Bredenkamp at private meetings; they are said 'to get on famously'...

Paris has also been strongly backing President Joseph Kabila's new government in Kinshasa; we hear the Elyseé also favours (and is winning support for) the replacement of Congo mediator Quett Masire with a Francophone perhaps Gabon's Omar Bongo...

A group of President Joseph Kabila's advisors touring Europe last weekend to drum up financial support for the Kinshasa regime were bolstered by the findings of the report released on 16 April: it blames rebels fighting the government for the bulk of the pillaging of resources...

The inter-Congolese dialogue will not work unless Joseph Kabila agrees to reactivate the political parties - but when Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social came home from exile on 23 April the thousands who greeted him at the airport were promptly driven off by Kinshasa's security forces...

Ministers hope that the United Nations by deploying peace monitors in Congo-Kinshasa will help them bring home some of the 13 000 troops they have sent to support President Joseph Kabila (AC Vol 42 No 1)...

'Joseph Kabila has chased away the uncles at last' proclaimed Le Forum des As on 15 April...

Son and successor President Joseph Kabila has been favourably received in Western capitals notably by the 'contact group' of Belgium Britain the United States and France...

RCD spokesman Tryphon Kin Kiey Mulumba says that his movement like the other armed rebel movements and the unarmed opposition does not accept that Joseph Kabila should take part as head of state in the inter-Congolese dialogue...

Two months after his father's death President Joseph Kabila has reshuffled his government and his staff officers around the figure of his 'uncle' Gaëtan Kakudji a cousin of the late Kabila Senior who is now Minister of the Interior...

The Colonel kept his job under new President Joseph Kabila in close association with the Angolan officers who organised the succession...

Hopes rest firstly on Congo's new President Joseph Kabila whose willingness to move negotiations forward prompted regional leaders to resuscitate the Lusaka peace plan at talks in the Zambian capital last week (AC Vol 42 Nos 2 & 3)...