The UN report on the pillage of Congo saw just one side of
the issue
'Joseph Kabila has chased away the uncles at last', proclaimed Le Forum des As on 15 April. The Kinshasa daily was reflecting widespread public approval of the President's Easter Saturday reshuffle that removed three of the four barons of the late Laurent...
Strange tales surround Laurent Kabila's murder (AC Vol 42 No 6). The main witness, Emile Mota, then head of economics in Kabila's office, was arrested in Lubumbashi while trying to escape into Zambia. He has been in Makala gaol in Kinshasa since mid-March...
Western powers like Joseph Kabila but that doesn't mean a quick peace
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. On 8 March, he...
The arrest of Colonel Eddy Kapend on 24 February disturbs the uneasy transition of power in Kinshasa. This is the man who shot the man who shot dead President Laurent-Désiré Kabila. His victim, Lieutenant Rashidi Minzele Kasereka, was the Pr...
Young President Kabila has done more than expected for peace
Elegant in his slightly baggy Kinshasa-style suit, President Joseph Kabila (AC Vol 42 No 2) won new friends in Washington, New York and Brussels. 'Le Petit', as some Belgian and French officials patronisingly call him, is not convivial like his late fathe...
The plot to kill the President has created the country's first
dynasty and left a door ajar for peace
Kabila's murder will increase foreign meddling in Kinshasa
politics
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