Joseph Kabila

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...

A large part of the army's problem is that officers steal the money meant to pay the soldiers: President Joseph Kabila belatedly ordered that troops be paid for April and May...

He met President Joseph Kabila and said he hoped to help restore stability...

It is so important that IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn met President Joseph Kabila in Kinshasa this week...

Two weeks after Evariste Boshab a close ally of President Joseph Kabila was elected Speaker of the National Assembly and the independent-minded Vital Kamerhe had been forced from the Speaker's post minority politicians are complaining about a return to a 'single-party' behaviour reminiscent of Presidents Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent Kabila...