Joseph Kabila Kabange is a Congolese politician who has been President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January 2001.
Background
Ethnicity:
He is the son of long time rebel, former AFDL leader and president of the Congo Laurent-Désiré Kabila and Sifa Mahanya.
Joseph Kabila Kabange was born on June 4, 1971 at Hewabora, a small village in the Fizi territory of the South Kivu province, in eastern Congo. He is the son of long time rebel, former AFDL leader and president of the Congo Laurent-Désiré Kabila and Sifa Mahanya.
Career
He took office ten days after the assassination of his father, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila. Kabila's first goal was peace. He traveled to the United States, France, Belgium, the Nordic countries, and Britain, to talk with heads of state, and push his message of peace. He reopened talks with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.In 2002, Kabila signed a deal to end the civil war in DRC in which hundreds of thousands had died and in which much of Africa had been enveloped for years. The accord notwithstanding, tensions simmered. On March 28, 2004, Kabila's forces foiled an attempted coup attack on his residence. Undeterred, in October 2004 he visited the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo for the first time since taking office, although the area, which had been held by insurgents during the civil war of the prior year, remained unstable.
Politics
The People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy is a center-left political party of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ideology - Social democracy.
Connections
On June 1, 2006, after many wedding rumors were fueled by many in top positions in the country, the head of the Presidential Household, Ambassador Theodore Mugalu officially announced the wedding of the President to Olive Lembe di Sita. The wedding ceremonies took place on June 17, 2006.[18] Kabila and his spouse have a daughter, born in 2001, named Sifa after Kabila's mother.