Joseph Kabila

Good record of credible post-apartheid elections Congo-Kinshasa November Presidential & legislative Joseph Kabila tries to prolong grip on power Ghana November Presidential & legislative History of very close but credible elections Gambia December Presidential Highly repressive regime Côte d'Ivoire December Parliamentary Alassane Ouattara's 2015 presidential victory boosts his alliance Taken together these developments are likely to undermine confidence in the ballot box among losing candidates and communities...

It was President Joseph Kabila who finally intervened calling an emergency meeting of the BCC Governor and the Finance Ministry on the morning of Sunday 3 April and informing Matata that he needed to leave BIAC alone sources suggest...

Another factor in this equation is a growing thaw in relations between Monusco and President Joseph Kabila Kabanga who detested the former UN head of mission Martin Kobler...

Delays to the compilation of the electoral register have now ensured that President Joseph Kabila stays in office beyond when the next elections should take place...

Far less clear are the prospects for President Joseph Kabila in Congo-Kinshasa who has been dithering over the third-term matter...

Félix Antoine Tshisekedi son of Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba the octogenarian leader of the opposition Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS) appears to have got the better of President Joseph Kabila just as his father did in 1991 to the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...

Moïse Katumbi Chapwe the man that opposition politicians hope could unseat President Joseph Kabila has spoken out against the government announcement that national and presidential elections should be postponed for 'two to four years'...

A lot of that is due to the fresh face he presents compared to the old faces of leaders such as Uganda's Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Rwanda's Paul Kagame and Congo-Kinshasa's Joseph Kabila...

Lambasted by civil activists for its opaque trading deals with corrupt and oppressive regimes such as General Sani Abacha's in Nigeria and President Joseph Kabila's in Congo-K five years ago it heralded a new era of transparency with a public listing...

The move in late June appears to be the opening salvo in an offensive by President Joseph Kabila Kabange to pre-empt and stifle the political ambitions of his rivals...