Joseph Kabila

The men of President Joseph Kabila’s Republican Guard taken by surprise withdrew but took control again at dawn...

President Joseph Kabila has virtually ensured his re-election on 27 November by getting Parliament to eliminate the inconvenience of a second electoral round (AC Vol 52 No 1)...

The main opposition party Jean-Pierre Bemba’s Mouvement de libération du Congo (MLC) supported by several local non-governmental organisations claims that the serving President (and candidate) Joseph Kabila will unlawfully prolong his time in office which is due to end on 6 December 2011...

This was one of the projects touted as the most promising during South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s visit to Kinshasa in July when he met President Joseph Kabila...

A parliamentary source suspects that this sort of deal was designed to finance the electoral campaign of President Joseph Kabila who is standing for re-election in November polls which are likely to be postponed due to logistical difficulties...

Lee and President Joseph Kabila signed a Korea Export-Import Bank deal for a water plant for Kinshasa and an additional programme of oil exploration and distribution projects between the Korea National Oil Corporation and Congolaise des Hydrocarbures (AAC Vol 3 No 12)...

Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno is choosing the same political strategy as Congo-Kinshasa’s President Joseph Kabila: he has opened the country’s doors to numerous development projects financed by China to be reimbursed with natural resource revenues...

The many other Chinese companies that are executing a variety of infrastructure projects on behalf of the Kinshasa government and others (see box) often seek the advice of BCPSC if they run into problems given the Bureau’s direct access to the offices of President Joseph Kabila and Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito...

Korean analysts are also preparing a development ‘roadmap’ for President Joseph Kabila’s government in Congo-Kinshasa (AAC Vol 4 No 1)...

European powers are blocking billions of dollars of debt relief to President Joseph Kabila’s government until it agrees to revise some of its trade and financing deals with China...