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The Real News Network
April 10, 2018
President Joseph Kabila insists that there is no humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, even as millions of children starve. Kabila "doesn't want anything to reinforce what is widely understood: that the instability in the country is caused in large part by his refusal to step down from power,"Ãâà...
STRATFOR
April 9, 2018
Congolese President Joseph Kabila seems ready to exit stage left, but he's not quite ready to leave the building. Jeune Afrique, a well-respected media outlet that focuses on African affairs, reported in late March that Kabila was carefully weighing potential successors in preparation for general electionsÃâà...
New York Times
April 8, 2018
NAIROBI, Kenya — When the United Nations hosts a donor conference next week to raise $1.7 billion for the violence-racked Democratic Republic of Congo, one important country will not attend: Congo itself. The government of President Joseph Kabila has said that it will boycott the gathering, denying thatÃâà...
Voice of America
March 31, 2018
Eight in 10 Congolese have an unfavorable opinion of President Joseph Kabila — but nearly seven in 10 don't think the December vote to replace him will be fair, according to a national poll published on Friday. The survey, conducted last month by the Congo Research Group at New York University andÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 31, 2018
Eight in ten Congolese have an unfavourable opinion of President Joseph Kabila - but nearly seven in ten don't think the December vote to replace him will be fair, according to a national poll published on Friday. The survey, conducted last month by the Congo Research Group at New York University andÃâà...
Open Democracy
March 31, 2018
However, critics fear that incumbent president Joseph Kabila – whose term was officially over in November 2016 and who had promised to hold elections late last year – is simply using the machines as a ruse to further delay votes, with the ultimate goal of maintaining power indefinitely. Against theÃâà...
Times LIVE
March 30, 2018
Armed rebels killed at least one soldier during an attack on a house owned by Congo President Joseph Kabila in the restive east where a number of conflicts have flared in recent months, rebel and Congo military sources said on Thursday. Kabila was not present when Mai-Mai militiamen attacked theÃâà...
Global Voices Online
March 28, 2018
Limete, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Some members of the Electoral Peace Committees (community and religious leaders, young people and women) CC-BY-20. This article is part of the follow-up brief of the pre-election period in the DRC. The first article from the brief can be foundÃâà...
BBC News
March 27, 2018
The international community prays that President Joseph Kabila will accede to elections before the end of the year but is preoccupied with North Korea and the Middle East. There is no appetite for scaling up the UN military presence - at the moment there are just over 15,000 troops in a country the size ofÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 26, 2018
Aid experts say the number of Congolese in need of aid, including food, has doubled over the past year. President Joseph Kabila has refused to leave office despite an election mandate that expired at the end of 2016. Congolese refugees at a camp across Lake Albert in Uganda. A humanitarian is crisisÃâà...
africanews
March 19, 2018
In an interview on the BBC, Tshibala said Joseph Kabila was eager to handover power to whoever emerges winner of the elections. He said Kabila respected the two-term constitutional limit and was committed to the electoral process. “Our constitution limits the president to two mandates. There is noÃâà...
News24
March 12, 2018
Muldersdrift - Democratic Republic of Congo's top opposition leader and other figures opposed to longtime President Joseph Kabila are meeting in South Africa to build a coalition ahead of long-delayed elections in the turbulent, resource-rich country. Delegates gathering at a resort hotel nearÃâà...
News24
March 10, 2018
Kinshasa - Congolese President Joseph Kabila has signed a mining law that is expected to increase the country's royalties despite opposition from major mining companies. Kabila announced the signing on Friday, two days after he met with mining company representatives for at least seven hours aboutÃâà...
eNCA
March 8, 2018
LONDON - An election in the Democratic Republic of Congo to replace President Joseph Kabila remains on course for late December, Prime Minister Bruno Tshibala says. "I committed in front of our country's representatives in May last year to ... bring the Congolese people to elections this year, and IÃâà...
News24
February 28, 2018
Kinshasa – Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly briefed his Democratic Republic of Congo counterpart Joseph Kabila on the transition that led to the end of former president Robert Mugabe's rule last year. Mnangagwa came into power in November following a military interventionÃâà...
The Herald
February 27, 2018
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday held a closed-door meeting with his Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) counterpart President Joseph Kabila and briefed him on the transition that led to the resignation of former President Cde Robert Mugabe in November last year. Emerging from the meeting,Ãâà...
Business Insider
February 26, 2018
Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila has refused to relinquish power for more than a year, and the Catholic Church has emerged as the ... Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila addresses a news conference at the State House in Kinshasa on January 26, 2018.
Voice of America
February 26, 2018
The southern African nation of Botswana has taken the unusual step of directly criticizing Congolese President Joseph Kabila, saying his refusal to hold long overdue elections is driving deadly violence and a growing humanitarian emergency in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Botswana's ForeignÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 25, 2018
Security forces shot live ammunition and tear gas at demonstrators as they tried to march in the capital, Kinshasa, on Sunday to demand that President Joseph Kabila step down. Organised by the Catholic Church, the marches were meant to start after Sunday mass, but armed forces surrounded the city'sÃâà...
Daily Nation
February 24, 2018
Congolese Catholic faithful sing and dance in Kinshasa on December 31, 2017 during a demonstration to call for DRC President Kabila to step down. Authorities banned a protest march planned for February 25, 2018 against President Joseph Kabila. PHOTO | JOHN WESSELS | AFPÃâà...
News24
February 21, 2018
Kinshasa - Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has named his party secretary general Henri Mova Sakanyi as the new interior minister and deputy prime minister, state television reported Tuesday. He replaces Emmanuel Ramazani Shadari, who has been in the post since DecemberÃâà...
Daily Nation
February 19, 2018
On Sunday, during a trip in Zambia, a car in DRC President Joseph Kabila's motorcade collided head-on with another car. One person was killed and another seriously injured. Last Wednesday in DRC, as Kabila was travelling back to the capital Kinshasa, a car in his motorcade collided with a cement truckÃâà...
The Standard
February 19, 2018
The motorcade of the Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila was involved in an accident in Zambia's capital, Lusaka, on Sunday, leaving one person dead and another seriously injured. The accident happened on Leopards Hill road following the alleged failure by police to clear theÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
February 14, 2018
The three soldiers and two civilians died as President Joseph Kabila was returning to the capital, Kinshasa. Another 11 people were injured, a presidential spokesman confirmed to news agency AFP. The spokesman said the accident was caused by "heavy rain", although early reports suggested speedÃâà...
The Guardian
February 7, 2018
Riot police fire teargas to disperse a Catholic priest and demonstrators during a protest against Joseph Kabila in Kinshasa in January. ... Joseph Kabila, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose refusal to step down at the end of his mandate in 2016 resulted in ongoing, bloody streetÃâà...
Business Day
December 31, 1999
The announcement marks the start of what's expected to be a series of declarations by candidates seeking to challenge President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled the central African nation for 17 years. Congo, Africa's biggest copper producer and the world's largest source of cobalt, has not had a peacefulÃâà...
