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Congo-Kinshasa

Joseph Kabila

Date of Birth: 4 June 1971
Place of Birth: Hewa Bora, South Kivu


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Shotgun wedding

In the short term Rwanda's return to eastern Congo weakens President Joseph Kabila's position in Kinshasa where the chorus of opposition is growing (AC Vol 50 Nos 1 & 2)...


A rift among rebels

President Joseph Kabila's invitation to Kigali to send in troops to round up Rwandan dissidents in eastern Congo may have dangerous consequences...


Old wounds, new crises

Its head Tshibanda is a lightweight and neither President Joseph Kabila’s office nor the Ministry of Defence were represented...


Tug of war

At the end of 2007 President Joseph Kabila's government agreed a US$9 billion deal with a consortium of Chinese companies to build railways and other infrastructure in exchange for access to minerals...


Debt, markets and Beijing

China's water power and telecoms projects are assuming a political importance for Beijing but more so for President Joseph Kabila who faces another election in 2011...


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Wu Zexian

Things became clearer by January 2008 when China Exim Bank signed a massive minerals countertrade deal with President Joseph Kabila for US$5 billion (later raised to $9 bn...


Twixt Beijing and the IMF

Falling demand for copper cobalt and diamonds offers a stark choice for President Joseph Kabila's government: does it accept the onerous conditions of credits from the International Monetary Fund or does it put its faith in massive mining and infrastructure projects with China which have been under negotiation for the past two years...


Nkunda's anti-Beijing card

China’s billion dollar contracts in Congo are at the centre of a new propaganda front in rebel General Laurent Nkunda’s war against President Joseph Kabila’s government in Kinshasa...


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