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	Kabila - MSN Encarta
		Joseph Kabila, born in 1972, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2001- ) since the assassination of his father, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila.
		Kabila went on to be educated in Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda.
		Joseph Kabila was sent to China for military training, returning to the DRC in 1998 to serve as the army’s chief of staff.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701631242/Kabila_Joseph.html (375 words)

	Joseph Kabila Encyclopedia Article @ Occurring.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Joseph Kabila Kabange (born June 4, 1971), known commonly as Joseph Kabila, became president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after the assassination of his father Laurent-Désiré Kabila in January 2001.
		Joseph Kabila was born in a small town Hewa Bora, in the Fizi territory of the South Kivu province, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Kabila fared better in the eastern part of the country, where Swahili is spoken.
	www.occurring.org /encyclopedia/Joseph_Kabila (1187 words)

	AP Wire \| 12/06/2006 \| Kabila sworn in as president of Congo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kabila, 35, was sworn in by the magistrates of the Supreme Court outside the presidential palace with thousands of onlookers shading themselves from the sun under umbrellas in the national colors of blue, red and yellow.
		The younger Kabila signed peace accords to end 1998-2002 wars that drew in the armies of at least six countries, and established the national-unity government he heads.
		Kabila won a close October run-off election against Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former warlord and one of four transitional vice presidents.
	www.kansascity.com /mld/kansascity/news/local/16176350.htm (380 words)

	CNN.com - World - Congo parliament OKs Kabila's son as president - January 24, 2001
		Joseph Kabila led all mourners on Tuesday at his father's funeral, which was attended by the leaders of three nations backing the DRC government's two-year battle against rebel forces backed by Uganda and Rwanda.
		Kabila, a 31-year-old major general who commanded his father's army, was picked by the government as Congo's new leader last week after Laurent Kabila was shot and killed by a bodyguard while he sat in his office.
		Kabila, aside from the sadness for his family, is bringing new opportunities for the country in terms of (building) a consensus," Nzanga Mobutu said in an interview.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/africa/01/24/congo.kabila.03 (842 words)

	President Joseph Kabila of Congo DR
		Joseph Kabila was born in Hewa Bora II, South Kivu, in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Joseph Kabila has since attempted to end the civil war and remove foreign troops from the country, with some success.
		Although Joseph Kabila registered as an independent, he is the "initiator" of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), which chose him as their candidate to the election.
	www.joinafrica.com /people/josephkabila.htm (691 words)

	Kabila's lead widens in Congo election - Boston.com
		Kabila was assassinated by a bodyguard in 2001 and succeeded by his son, Joseph.
		With a rash of tallies coming in from Congo's east, where Kabila's support is strong, the president extended his share to 53 percent, compared with 19 percent for Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former rebel leader in the civil war and vice president in a postwar unity government.
		Kabila was seen as the front-runner because many credit him with taking the initiative to end Congo's 1996-2002 war by uniting warring rebels to form a transitional government that paved the way for the elections.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/08/12/kabilas_lead_widens_in_congo_election (653 words)

	Congo Inaugurates Joseph Kabila
		Kabila arrived in Goma the previous night to evaluate the situation of the fighting between renegade soldiers and the regular army.
		Congo inaugurated Joseph Kabila as its first freely elected president in more than four decades Wednesday, installing a rebel leader's son who ushered in a plan to end years of fighting to help the country take a place among the world's democracies.
		Kabila, 35, was sworn in by the magistrates of the Supreme court in front of thousands of onlookers shading themselves from the sun under umbrellas in the national colors of blue, red and yellow.
	www.happynews.com /news/1262006/congo-inaugurates-joseph-kabila.htm (452 words)

	RaceandHistory.com - IRIN Focus on the post-Kabila era
		The cabinet's appointment of the late president's son, Joseph Kabila, to lead the army and the government retained control within the existing "inner circle" and also bought time for the members of that elite to make their case for leadership, said Reyntjens, a Great Lakes analyst attached to the University of Antwerp in Belgium.
		Kabila's death gave rise to the possibility of "a major shift" in the DRC conflict, according to the independent US-based intelligence consultancy Stratfor.
		Joseph Kabila had been named as the acting head of government but the evidence indicated that, for the moment, other senior government officials may be running the country, it said.
	www.raceandhistory.com /historicalviews/postkabila.htm (1761 words)

	monuc.org: DRC Supreme Court confirms J. Kabila as President ::: 27/11/2006
		The DRC Supreme Court on November 27 2006 confirmed Joseph Kabila as the new President of the DRC, and found against the legal protestations of election irregularities by his presidential rival Jean Pierre Bemba.
		The tasks facing the new president are immense, as he seeks to rebuild the vast state of the Congo after the wars and conflicts of the previous decade, which have caused the deaths of an estimated four million Congolese, and destroyed much of the infrastructure and organs of the state.
		Joseph Kabila is due to be formally declared President on December 6.
	www.monuc.org /news.aspx?newsID=13260 (338 words)

	Anger in Congo as Kabila builds poll lead - Boston.com
		Hackles are rising in Congo's volatile capital Kinshasa as incumbent President Joseph Kabila builds a lead with results trickling in from the country's first free elections in more than four decades.
		Hackles are rising in Kinshasa as incumbent President Joseph Kabila builds a lead with results trickling in from the country's first free elections in more than four decades.
		Kabila will never be our president," Botonge said, adding he voted for Bemba simply because he spoke his language.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2006/08/13/anger_in_congo_capital_as_kabila_builds_poll_lead (678 words)

	drc021 Joseph Kabila visits Tanzania
		Kabila further at a press conference in Zanzibar said an African federation will not soon materialise as long as some African countries use their forces to invade other African countries.
		In April, Joseph fired the entire cabinet he inherited from his late father, in what observers said was a move to create a new and clean government capable of leading the Congolese out of the mire of civil conflict.
		Kabila is seen by many as the right man to bring to an end the war that has been tearing apart this resource rich country in the heart of the continent, the Sunday Observer observed.
	www.afrol.com /News2001/drc021_tan_kabila.htm (748 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Kabila returns from peace offensive
		Joseph Kabila's father, Laurent, was widely viewed as creating obstacles to the peace process.
		Mr Kabila is reported to have responded favourably to a Belgian request for him to engage in a process of national reconciliation with opposition forces.
		Mr Kabila said a timetable should be set for the unconditional withdrawal of the Rwandan and Ugandan armies - which support rebel movements - and the eventual withdrawal Zimbabwean and Angolan forces, which support the government.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1153000/1153267.stm (570 words)

	United Methodist Bishops Meet, Pray, with President of Congo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kabila was in the U.S. capital to meet with President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and executives from international development organizations.
		Kabila told bishops he is committed to a peace process that will lead to elections, but cautioned that he is walking a difficult road.
		Joseph Kabila (left), president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, speaks with a delegation from the United Methodist Council of Bishops during a November 6 meeting.
	gbgm-umc.org /umcor/03/kabilameeting.stm (786 words)

	Hip Hop Republican: Joseph Kabila Kabange Vs Che Guevara
		Joseph Kabila Kabange recently became president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he just happens to also be the son of the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila.
		Kabila was born a member of the Luba tribe in Jadotville (present-day Likasi) in the Belgian Congo, Katanga province.
		Kabila found new allies in Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola and managed to hold on in the south and west of the country and in July 1999 peace talks led to the withdrawal of most foreign forces.
	hiphoprepublican.com /2006/11/joseph-kabila-kabange-vs-che-guevara.html (1157 words)

	Kabila Wins Runoff in Congo Election, Nearly Complete Election Results Show Joseph Kabila Wins Runoff in Congo ...
		If Kabila is declared the winner, as seemed likely, he will face the enormous challenge of unifying a country with little sense of nationhood and little experience of resolving differences through politics.
		The youthful Kabila, who has led a transitional government since 2001, has managed to convince foreign governments he is capable of governing, but that can raise suspicions among a people wary of outsiders meddling after decades of colonialism and a war that saw neighboring countries fighting for a share of Congo's natural resources.
		Kabila himself has been accused by a parliamentary commission of illegally selling concessions including some of the richest copper and cobalt mines in the world to the benefit of foreign companies with little profit to the country.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/11/14/ap/world/mainD8LD4U380.shtml (874 words)

	monuc.org: IEC: Joseph Kabila elected new president of DRC ::: 16/11/2006
		Jospeh Kabila gained 9,436,779 votes against 6,819,822 votes for Jean Pierre Bemba, out of a total number of 16,256,601 ballots, which represents a 65.36% turnout of the voting population.
		Kabila only won a majority in five out of the eleven DRC provinces, with a huge Kabila vote of 2,424,975 in Katanga and a poor voting turnout in Kinshasa, a Bemba stronghold, giving him a decisive victory.
		Kabila becomes the youngest democratically elected African head of state, a position he has held since the assassination of his father Laurent Kabila in 2001.
	www.monuc.org /news.aspx?newsID=13131 (503 words)

	CNN.com - World - Joseph Kabila sworn in as Congo's president - January 26, 2001
		KINSHASA, Congo -- Joseph Kabila was sworn in on Friday as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, taking the place of his assassinated father, Laurent Kabila.
		Joseph Kabila, said to be in his early 30s, took the oath of office before the red-robed members of the DRC's Supreme Court in Kinshasa's People's Palace, where his father's body lay in state before the funeral earlier this week.
		Joseph Kabila, who has made no public statements since his father's death, faces a tense nation embroiled in a 2 1/2 year civil war.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/africa/01/26/congo.kabila (561 words)

	Online NewsHour: Joseph Kabila -- February 1, 2001
		Joseph Kabila, the son of slain Congo leader Laurent Kabila, assumes the presidency of a troubled nation in central Africa.
		The younger Kabila inherited a nation on the verge of economic and political collapse, cut almost in half by civil war.
		Joseph Kabila is now on his first diplomatic trip to enlist support for his new government.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/jan-june01/kabila_2-01.html (1508 words)

	Joseph Kabila - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The new constitution lowers the minimum age of presidential candidates from 35 to 30; Kabila turned 35 shortly before the election.
		These results were confirmed by the Supreme Court on November 27, 2006, and Kabila was inaugurated on December 6, 2006 as the country's newly elected President.
		^ "Joseph Kabila sworn in as Congo's elected president", Reuters, December 6, 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Kabila (1046 words)

	AFROL Background - Joseph Kabila begins painful pursuit of peace
		The leadership around Kabila, who took power in 1997, moved quickly and in full consultation with his main allies, Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe, to fill the power vacuum by appointing Kabila's 31-year-old son, Joseph, who was head of Congo's armed forces.
		Kabila was also to meet with top UN officials, including members of the Security Council in New York.
		The senior Kabila had an ambivalent and often contradictory relationship with the UN and the Organization of African Unity's special representative, former Botswana president Ketumile Masire who was attempting to bring the various factions together in a political process and set a course for multi-party democracy.
	www.afrol.com /Countries/DRC/backgr_j_kabila_peace.htm (1108 words)

	Africa'sHope.com - Today's Situation
		The death of Laurent Kabila at the hands of one of his own bodyguards in January 2001 led to the swearing in of his son, Joseph, as president.
		Joseph Kabila's brief time in office has already offered some hope that the fighting may one day cease.
		His willingness to meet with rebel groups, as well as other international leaders, has already led to the withdrawal of several troops from the DRC, and his decision to lift Mobutu's ban on political parties could be a viable step towards implementing democracy.
	www.africashope.com /history_Joseph_Kabila.htm (204 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Country profiles \| Country profile: Democratic Republic of Congo
		Joseph Kabila became Congo's president when his father Laurent was assassinated in 2001.
		Kabila is a former guerrilla fighter who participated in nearly a decade of war that ravaged the country.
		Joseph Kabila is the eldest of 10 children fathered by Laurent Kabila.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1076399.stm (1057 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Kabila looks toward a new DRCongo
		Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila said his country must continue to map out a plan for economic growth, address human rights issues, and clear the way for free, fair, democratic elections.
		Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila outlined his vision for bringing prosperity and democracy to his war-torn country at the ARCO Forum Monday night.
		To become the democratic society it wishes to be, Kabila said, the DRCongo must continue to map out a plan for economic growth, address human rights issues, and clear the way for free, fair, and democratic elections.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2001/11.01/14-congo.html (391 words)

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