Joseph Kabila
President of the DR Congo from 2001 to 2019
Photo: Helene C. Stikkel, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
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- Oct 12
Joseph Kabila takes lead of M23-backed FRN rebel movement in eastern Congo
Former president Joseph Kabila, sentenced to death in absentia a year earlier, has been named leader of a new movement that replaces the AFC/M23 alliance in eastern Congo.
- Jun 13
Deadly clashes in Kinshasa after police disperse opposition sit-in against constitutional reform
At least two people died and hundreds were wounded in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital on Friday as security forces broke up a sit-in by the C64 opposition coalition, with one human rights NGO putting the toll at four dead.
