Joseph Kabila

Former President Joseph Kabila is desperately seeking assurances from his successor President Félix Tshisekedi that he be guaranteed immunity from prosecution by the International Criminal Court...

Politics during 2021 will be dominated by the power struggle between the two official winners – losers in reality – of the 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections President Félix Tshisekedi and ex-president Joseph Kabila (AC Vol 60 No 2 Data leak exposes plot to steal presidential vote)...

Former president Joseph Kabila's political coalition the Front Commun pour le Congo (FCC) which ordinarily has a comfortable majority in the National Assembly scored a spectacular own goal on 10 December...

He has split up the coalition with former President Joseph Kabila's Front Commun pour le Congo (FCC) and finished a month of much-hyped national consultations on 24 November but there is still little sign of him opening a new road to the future (AC Vol 61 No 22 Stepping back from the brink)...

In the event no such drama occurred although Tshisekedi did declare that his alliance with ex-President Joseph Kabila's Front Commun pour le Congo (FCC) was over...

Both of these companies are now under investigation for corruption in their dealings with Gertler whom the United States Treasury put under sanctions in December 2017 on the basis of its findings about corruption in Congo-K and his friendship with Joseph Kabila who took over from his father after he was assassinated in 2001...

In the equally suspect parliamentary polls the Front commun pour le Congo (FCC) a coalition headed by former President Joseph Kabila scooped most of the seats according to CENI despite the wave of popular hostility towards Kabila...

Nkurunziza had alienated many within his own party the Burundian political class as a whole all international donors and most regional heads of state by the time of his death except for Tanzania's President John Magufuli and former President Joseph Kabila of Congo-Kinshasa...

Local company Kipay run by a businessman associated with former President Joseph Kabila has partnered with hydropower giant PowerChina to build the $400 million project (AC Vol 54 No 5 The Mai-Mai and their commanders)...

The unfolding saga will also cast light on how far the United States government is willing to go to help the beleaguered President Félix Tshisekedi or whether it sees him mainly as a tool to weaken the influence of former President Joseph Kabila and business allies like Gertler...