Joseph Kabila

Whatever the truth about the gunfire - claimed to be a coup plot by allies of President Joseph Kabila - the incidents have further wobbled the transitional government already shaken by rows over nominating new provincial governors and control of the new national army...

A dangerous rift has opened at the top of the transitional government between President Joseph Kabila and Azarias Ruberwa one of the four vice-presidents and leader of the largest former rebel group the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma (AC Vol 45 No 1)...

Mbeki's team included Brenda Fassie a celebrated singer whose lively performance at Kinshasa's Grand Hotel included a kiss smack on the lips of President Joseph Kabila...

Half of the 700 ex-fighters in Mutobo camp just south of Ruhengeri were from Joseph Padiri Bulenda's Mai-Mai Forces Armées de Libération more than 300 from the Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) plus about 50 from President Joseph Kabila's Forces Armées Congolaises (FAC)...

Serufuli will carry on playing Ruberwa off against Kagame and both against President Joseph Kabila...

Officers of President Joseph Kabila's Agence Nationale de Renseignements (ANR National Information Agency) arrived at the Grand Hôtel and arrested Colonel Hubert Olangué of the Congo-Brazzaville army...

7 billion covered territory controlled by President Joseph Kabila's government; now the Kinshasa power-sharing government wants the PMURR to cover former rebel territories in Equateur Province and the east...

Rwandan intelligence scores full marks for orchestrating the surrender of Hutu rebel leader Paul Rwarakabije on 16 November and wrongfooting both the United Nations and President Joseph Kabila's power-sharing government in Kinshasa...

President Joseph Kabila's planned meeting with United States President George Bush on 5 November is a personal triumph for Israeli diamond trader and Congo's ambassador at large Dan Gertler who along with his business partner Chaim Leibovitz has been cultivating White House contacts for several months...

The state coffers are effectively empty which did not deter President Joseph Kabila from apportioning operating budgets (we are told) of $1 million per month for the presidency and $500 000 for the four Vice-Presidencies...

Joseph Kabila's enigma persists: the unanswered questions about his origins his father's death and to whom who he owes his meteoric rise from relative obscurity in Tanzania a decade ago to Congo's état major and now State President...