Joseph Kabila

The raid on one of President Joseph Kabila’s homes came in the early afternoon of 27 February a Sunday when a couple of dozen soldiers forced their way past a roadblock manned by the Garde républicaine in the smart Gombé district of central Kinshasa and were stopped at a second barrier...

President Joseph Kabila’s best troops are Katangese and Tutsi of the Conseil national pour la défense du peuple who have joined the Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo...

The 28 February Conseil supérieur de la défense brought together President Joseph Kabila’s top security team...

However the nationalist and anti-Western stance of the regimes of President Joseph Kabila and President Robert Mugabe earns some street credibility and they can call on China for at least some of their funding...

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)...