Joseph Kabila

Agreed in November 2009 the second phase of infrastructure deals associated with the Sicomines joint venture is worth US$400 million and is expected to provide Congolese President Joseph Kabila with a list of projects about which he can boast in the 2011 national elections...

A professor of constitutional law at the Université de Kinshasa Boshab was President Joseph Kabila’s Chief of Staff during the transition period that followed the Second Congo War...

On 27 November the Patriotes-Résistants de Dongo claimed responsibility on the internet for the attack on the helicopter and threatened to overthrow the ‘puppet regime’ of President Joseph Kabila...

De Gucht is suspected of favouring Asia over Africa and is a tough talker who angered President Joseph Kabila by attacking Congo-Kinshasa's entire political elite...

Under suspicion is an Italian businessman Vittorio Dordi who (according to the magazine L'Espresso in August) owns a mining company called Gold Rock and claims to be associated with Congolese President Joseph Kabila; he is in fact nominally under house arrest in Italy pending inquiries into the purchase last year of half a million Chinese T-56 assault rifles by China's state-owned North Industries Corporation to meet an order from Libya; the suspected end-users are said to be in Chad Congo-Kinshasa Sudan and Iraq...

President Joseph Kabila owes a lot to Angola's rulers who helped his late father Laurent-Désiré Kabila to overthrow President Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 then supported him against armed uprisings in 1998-2003...

Several inconvenient facts are undermining President Joseph Kabila's ambitious 'zero tolerance' anti-corruption campaign...

At the 2-8 September SADC summit President Joseph Kabila tried to square the circle by 'inviting' the Westcor partners and regional states to share in developing Inga...

Despite temporarily losing its license after clashing with Israeli mining speculator Dan Gertler (who enjoys a close relationship with Congolese President Joseph Kabila) CAMEC continued to slice off the top of the Mukondo Mountain which it says is the world's richest cobalt deposit...

Joseph Kabila became President of Congo-Kinshasa at the age of 35 President José Eduardo dos Santos of Angola first took office when he was 37...