He insists his mission is to topple Tshisekedi and boosted his standing by recruiting the former Congo-K president Joseph Kabila to his ranks...
Adolphe Muzito – a former prime minister under Joseph Kabila and long-time protégé of Antoine Gizenga – returns as Minister of Budget...
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President Félix Tshisekedi is trying to shore up his position after reports that former president Joseph Kabila wants to return to Congolese politics after self-exile in South Africa...
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Kabila lurksOn 9 April former Congolese President Joseph Kabila announced that he would soon return to the country ‘from the east'...
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Vol 66 No 6 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Former President Joseph Kabila has re-emerged from the political wilderness holding talks with opposition politicians about Congo-Kinshasa's political future and issuing a fierce denunciation of his successor Félix Tshisekedi's handling of the conflict in eastern Congo...
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Nangaa was angered by western states sanctioning him as head of the Electoral Commission for engineering Tshisekedi's rigged electoral victory in 2019 in cahoots with outgoing President Joseph Kabila...
In October 2015 Russia's Africa Investment Agency presented an ambitious vision for cooperation praising then-President Joseph Kabila as a pragmatist and highlighting plans from road construction to nuclear energy...
Reynders had persistently criticised Congo-K's former President Joseph Kabila prompting speculation that he was trying to help his friend Katumbi a perennial presidential contender...
Vol 65 No 17 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
After months of plotting President Félix Tshisekedi has finally made a decisive move against his predecessor Joseph Kabila...
Vol 65 No 11 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Intelligence sources in Kinshasa said Malanga had joined assassination attempts against Joseph Kabila President from 2001 to 2019...
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Whether or not Tshisekedi's indulgent take on the matter is also influenced by suitably well-hidden payments from Gertler-connected offshore entities as appeared to be the case with his predecessor Joseph Kabila is unclear...
In 2017 the United States Treasury Department put Israeli businessman Dan Gertler under sanctions for 'hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of opaque and corrupt mining and oil deals' in Congo-K in which he acted as a middleman – a position acquired thanks to his friendship with President Joseph Kabila...