The meal was postponed  as were talks to promote the Great Lakes peace process with Eduardo dos Santos (Angola)  Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (Uganda)  Joseph Kabila (Congo-Kinshasa) and Paul Kagame (Rwanda)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	       On 2 October in Pretoria  Buyoya met Presidents Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania  Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Joseph Kabila of Congo-Kinshasa  with their host  President Thabo Mbeki  in the chair...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      President Joseph Kabila is slowly broadening his power base and building an international network...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 19 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     New hopes are riding on a summit between Congo's President Joseph Kabila (AC Vol 42 No 14) and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame  to be held in Blantyre  Malawi  this week...
 Joseph Kabila lacks both the popular base and the political skills to manipulate events so clearly to his advantage...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 19 | 
            - BURUNDI
 - RWANDA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	    There is growing concern in Kigali and Bujumbura about the consequences of efforts by Congo-Kinshasa's President Joseph Kabila to expel the 'negative forces'  the hardline militias involved in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda which killed over 800 000 Tutsi people and Hutu moderates...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 18 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     President Joseph Kabila has suspended the boards of 57 of them  appointed provisional management committees and called for new business plans...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 14 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	    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'...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 10 | 
            - FRANCE
 - AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 9 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     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...