Joseph Kabila News

The Democratic Republic of Congo's envoy to South Africa has welcomed a proposal by the U.N. Secretary General to extend the mandate of its mission in Congo for six months instead of a year.

General Secretary Kim Jong Il was presented with a personal message and a gift by Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

President Joseph Kabila on Monday vowed that "public order will be restored" in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where deadly tribal strife has erupted.

Recruitment drive for new magistrates seeks to repair image of judiciary. By Heritier Maila in Lubumbashi In a bid to clean up the Congolese judiciary, the authorities are seeking to appoint as many as 1,000 new magistrates in the country over the next two years.

A Zimbabwean cargo aircraft crashed earlier today at Shanghai-Pudong airport, killing three and seriously injuring four.

THIS is a response to Eddie Cross's opinion we carried also under the opinion category THIS is an outrageously false comment about the MDC which bears no relation to the facts.

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremiae has arrived to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he will meet with President Joseph Kabila.

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 world, diplomats and officials said.

Uganda's former army chief James Kazini has been killed at his girlfriend's flat in the capital, Kampala.

In the Democratic republic of Congo, the deputy governor of the restive North Kivu province says his administration is determined to rebuild destroyed infrastructure after years of rebel insurgencies.

While the crisis that plagued eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo last year and threatened to engulf the entire region has eased, some of the factors that led to the fierce fighting and the displacement of hundred of thousands must still be dealt with, a senior United Nations envoy said today.

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 means of solving any internal differences.

ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe and his political rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will today attend a regional summit in Maputo, Mozambique, in a bid to thrash out disputes undermining the Harare inclusive government.

The Southern African Development Community has drafted South African President Jacob Zuma into Thursday's meeting of SADC's troika on politics, defense and security in Maputo, Mozambique, on Thursday, regional sources said, increasing the leverage of the heads of state who will be trying to resolve the crisis in Harare's unity government.

A Zimbabwean deputy minister from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party who was arrested for allegedly stealing a cell phone from an ally of President Robert Mugabe has been cleared of the charges.

Three regional leaders who form the SADC Troika will meet with Zimbabwea s feuding political leaders in Maputo, Mozambique on Thursday, to try to unlock the deadlock that threatens the unity government.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party will again boycott Cabinet's weekly meeting on Tuesday because "nothing has changed", a top official of the party said on Monday.

Joseph Kabila, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, told journalists in South Africa on Friday that he didna t believe the political deadlock in Zimbabwe was out of control.

The African continent is still being sidelined by international financial institutions, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.

The Southern African Development Community is stepping up its intervention to resolve the crisis within Zimbabwe's eight-month-old national unity government, with SADC Chairman and Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila due in Harare on the heels of a two-day assessment and mediation mission by SADC foreign ministers.