Joseph Kabila

Western mining companies – led by Glencore and Randgold – are readying for battle with President Joseph Kabila over the government's plans to hike taxes and royalties on their operations...

Yet as the months roll on it will become ever more apparent that the vote won't happen and Joseph Kabila isn't going anywhere...

Long entrenched in eastern Congo-K the ADF has become part of a proxy war between President Joseph Kabila and his Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC) and opposition politician Mbusa Nyamwisi exiled in Tanzania who has close links to Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (AC Vol 58 No 4 Leader's demise imperils deal & Vol 57 No 25 Killers crowd in)...

The electoral commission (Commission électorale nationale indépendante – CENI) has finally published a calendar fixing polls for the presidency the national and state parliaments for 23 December 2018 signalling the end of President Joseph Kabila's 18 years in office...

They argued that the calendar 'unilaterally and abusively prolongs the mandate of Joseph Kabila' demanding his departure before next year and elections no later than 30 June 2018...

'Joseph Kabila and his servant Corneille Nangaa have declared war on the Congolese people ' said Felix Tshisekedi the leader of the Rassemblement de l'opposition congolaise...

President Joseph Kabila's Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo (FARDC) are struggling to cope with a series of attacks by Mai Mai militia groups on army positions across North and South Kivu and northern Tanganyika...

This has disappointed the families of the victims and outraged human rights advocates who want a full independent investigation and do not trust any agency beholden to President Joseph Kabila's government...

President Joseph Kabila's crackdown on reporters has claimed yet another victim and outraged the Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation du Congo (MONUSCO) in the process...

The authorities refused to renew his visa after the agency had enraged President Joseph Kabila's family by reporting that they were corruptly making US$60 from every Congolese passport issued...

President Paul Kagame's apparent support of President Joseph Kabila is also causing concern...