Joseph Kabila

China's water power and telecoms projects are assuming a political importance for Beijing but more so for President Joseph Kabila who faces another election in 2011...

Things became clearer by January 2008 when China Exim Bank signed a massive minerals countertrade deal with President Joseph Kabila for US$5 billion (later raised to $9 bn...

Falling demand for copper cobalt and diamonds offers a stark choice for President Joseph Kabila's government: does it accept the onerous conditions of credits from the International Monetary Fund or does it put its faith in massive mining and infrastructure projects with China which have been under negotiation for the past two years...

China’s billion dollar contracts in Congo are at the centre of a new propaganda front in rebel General Laurent Nkunda’s war against President Joseph Kabila’s government in Kinshasa...

So the talks which began in Nairobi on 8 December were a big political risk especially for President Joseph Kabila...

In September after talks between President Joseph Kabila and Freeport’s President Richard Adkerson it was announced that the project would start development in 2009...

At the least Kagame is doing nothing to rein in Nkunda and he irritates Kinshasa by saying Congolese President Joseph Kabila's government is to blame because its own Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo are collaborating with the FDLR...

In 2003 the RCD then at peace with the Kinshasa government under President Joseph Kabila appointed him to command the North Kivu military district within the new national army...

President Joseph Kabila has asked Angola to send troops and equipment to help the government army tackle Nkunda; Luanda has not responded publicly but this could escalate into a regional war...

President Joseph Kabila’s government has not really tried: soon after a peace deal was signed in January it sent (useless) tanks to show it meant to go on fighting...