Joseph Kabila

Some see the call by the Congo-Kinshasa's government for a joint Sino-Spanish plan to develop the much-delayed Inga hydropower project as a political trick to keep both China and the West happy while President Joseph Kabila finds a way to extend his grip on power...

Across the Congo River, meanwhile, President Joseph Kabila has taken a less parsimonious approach, though his decision to hand Mer Group, an Israel-based logistics firm, a $5...

True to his recent form, President Joseph Kabila has chosen to appoint a long-time former oppositionist as Prime Minister...

This expansion in its Zambian interests came in the wake of an ugly dispute in Congo-Kinshasa, where the company had established itself as one of the country's biggest investors before simmering bad blood led President Joseph Kabila to expropriate mining units at Kolwezi, Frontier and Lonshi in 2009-10...

FTI also worked with Dan Gertler, similarly exposed to charges over mining deals linked to his close friend, Congo-Kinshasa President Joseph Kabila (AC Vol 58 No 5, An awkward tango for Gertler and Glencore)...

Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler and South African commodity trader Ivan Glasenberg, who have done far better than their corporate rivals out of Joseph Kabila's reign in Congo-Kinshasa, are rethinking their strategy...

The deal that President Joseph Kabila agreed on 31 December with the opposition for elections this year and the end of his presidency depended on swift implementation...

If Pham gets the post, US policy could harden against Congo-Kinshasa, where he wants much more pressure on President Joseph Kabila to leave office...

Just minutes before midnight on 19 December, as the seconds ticked down on the last day of his constitutionally permitted second term of office, President Joseph Kabila Kabange's Information Minister, Lambert Mende Omalanga, announced on state television that a new transitional government had been formed...

Friends of the diamond-dealer say he has never really forgiven Joseph Kabila since his father Laurent confiscated a 266-carat diamond he had found in 2000 and sold it abroad for an estimated US$20 million...

Kodjo brokered an agreement last October but this had little effect and was widely thought to play to President Joseph Kabila's tune...