Joseph Kabila

The president who assumed office in January has a different vision for the scheme than that supported by officials he inherited from his predecessor Joseph Kabila and the two sides are battling it out (AC Vol 60 No 3 A day of portents)...

Tshisekedi points as evidence to the closure of the notorious cachots (dungeons) of the Agence Nationale de Renseignements the secret police under his presidency the freeing of all the political prisoners who were immured there and in the crumbling prisons and the firing of the ANR's head Kalev Mutond a close associate of former President Joseph Kabila...

Ex-President Joseph Kabila and his allies still call the shots in the mining industry...

Last year Ben-Menashe received $2m to promote the academic as leader of a provisional government alongside former President Joseph Kabila when the latter was planning to delay elections until 2020...

Alexis Thambwe Mwamba a member of former President Joseph Kabila's Front commun pour le Congo (FCC) coalition is likely to be elected President of the national senate...

President Félix Tshisekedi's decision to reappoint Albert Yuma Mulimbi – one of ex-President Joseph Kabila's closest allies – as head of Congo-Kinshasa's largest state-owned mining company has raised eyebrows as well as hackles...

For many Yuma's continuation as the president of the Gécamines board after nine controversial years is proof of the enduring influence of Joseph Kabila who was succeeded by former opposition leader Tshisekedi in January...

No-showsAmong the main no-shows at the funeral was former President Joseph Kabila who sent his brother Zoé Kabila the new governor of Tanganyika province to represent the family...

The return to Congo-Kinshasa after three years in exile of Moïse Katumbi the former Governor of Katanga is set to shake up national politics even as ex-President Joseph Kabila retains a vice-like grip on state institutions and the military...

The area around Beni and Butembo a bastion of sentiment against ex-President Joseph Kabila and stronghold of Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi and his fellow ethnic Nandes is also subject to claims that Islamic State has taken root there amid the constellation of armed groups (AC Vol 60 No 3 A day of portents)...

Mining industry investors are increasingly nervous about Zambia and the growing popularity of resource-nationalist motivated tax grabs such as the one ex-President Joseph Kabila imposed on miners in Congo-Kinshasa and the demand for $190 billion in back-taxes from Acacia Mining initially made by Tanzania's President John Magufuli (AC Vol 58 No 15 Magufuli's law)...

Elections to fill the 108 seats of Congo-Kinshasa's senate have delivered Joseph Kabila's political coalition a decisive majority in the upper house and handed him the power to impeach his newly installed successor Félix Tshisekedi if he chooses...