The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Is Congo’s President Joseph Kabila flirting with dictatorship? AFTER 32 years of rapacious dictatorship under Mobutu Sese Seko and nearly a decade of chaos following his demise in 1997, Congo’s elections in 2006 marked the first time the people of the former Belgian colony had gone to the polls in a free and fair vote for four decades. It was a rare moment of hope for a better future....
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Indian United Nations peacekeepers conduct a night foot patrol in Goma in eastern Congo, February 15, 2009. Photograph by: Finbarr O'Reilly /Reuters, REUTERS U.N. Mulls Exit Strategy For Congo Troops: Diplomats -- Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is quietly preparing an exit strategy for its troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest U.N. peacekeeping mission in the...
Fund my Mutual Fund (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
As the United States spends money it doesn't have (much of it borrowed from China ironically) to manipulate housing prices upward, get its debt laden consumers to spend with financial handouts, bail out its financial oligarchs, and funnel money into states so its public sector employees have no need to make any necessary adjustments to reality, China continues to spend its surplus on "nation building"...
Bosses blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Mail & Guardian, Jason Moyo The MDC hoped regional leaders would "do the right thing" and put pressure on Mugabe to honour his commitments to the agreement, after a visit to Zimbabwe by SADC chairman and DRC president Joseph Kabila failed to ease tensions. Kabila remains indebted to Mugabe, who sent in the Zimbabwe army to defend the Congo against Rwandan and Ugandan-backed rebels in...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday set the trial date for former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo for April 27. The trial date was set to give the defense six months of preparation from the date the Office of the Prosecutor fulfills its disclosure obligations, in compliance with the ICC Rules of Procedure and Evidence. The ICC order...
Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Efforts to resolve the political impasse that threatens to break the Zimbabwean fragile unity government are expected to be bolstered when President Jacob Zuma travels to the Mozambican capital, Maputo, for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Troika summit. The summit of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Co-operation will be held to review the political situation in the...
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has won the run-off elections. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire Photo File No substitute for dialogue, says Kabila From Sydney Kawadza in MUTARE Courtesy of the Zimbabwe Herald DRC President Joseph Kabila has challenged Africa to follow his country’s example by actively seeking dialogue and pursuing national reconciliation as a...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Air Zimbabwe airliner hit animal at Harare international airport during taxiing A plane was forced to make an emergency stop in Zimbabwe after hitting a warthog on the runway. The Air Zimbabwe airliner veered off the runway at Harare international airport after colliding with the animal, a commonly found wild pig with protruding tusks. "Unfortunately our plane, which was going to Bulawayo, hit...
The Bearded Man (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Oh wow! Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has stated that Mugabe would be a rebel if the unity government collapses... Is this the best that he has got? Hasn't he got anything a little more meaty to say about Mugabe's reluctance to toe the line? " Deputy Prime Minister Professor Mutambara told journalists soon after meeting SADC chairman Democratic...
Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
President Mugabe held critical talks with DRC counterpart Joseph Kabila on the country’s latest political impasse. According to AllAfrica, Kabila, who is described as an ally of Mugabe, said that the power-sharing government remained Zimbabwe’s only option. Mugabe met Kabila ahead of a SADC summit on Zimbabwe in Maputo on Thursday. Swaziland’s King Mswati, Mozambican President Armando...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
DRC President Joseph Kabila, who is the Sadc chair, yesterday engaged the three principals to the Global Political Agreement on political developments in the country, with President Mugabe saying the regional bloc understands that Zimbabweans can solve their problems without undue external interference.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Harare - Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo and current head of Southern Africa's regionalpolitical alliance, was in Zimbabwe for talks Monday with the partners in the country's stricken unity government, officials said. His...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila, who is the Sadc chairman, arrived in the country last night on a working visit.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The Democratic Republic of the Congo President and Sadc chairman Joseph Kabila is expected in the country early next week on a state visit.
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
President Joseph Kabila on cover that reads "La Revue". The Democratic Republic of Congo has established joint military monitoring agreements with neighboring Rwanda and Uganda in order to curb rebel activity in the eastern region of the country. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Kabila expected in Zim next week Herald Reporter The Democratic Republic of the Congo President...
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