Joseph Kabila
Joseph Kabila Kabange ( born June 4, 1971 in Hewa Bora, South Kivu ) is since January 26, 2001 President of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He comes from the Bantu ethnic group of the Luba.
Life
Kabila was born according to official figures, the son of Laurent- Désiré Kabila and his wife Mahanya Sifa Kabila in the rebel headquarters Hewa Bora II. However, it appear again and again doubts and rumors that Kabila Laurent- Désiré not biological son, but son had a different father or wholly of other parents who was adopted by Kabila. A widespread, used for political propaganda version says his parents were Tutsi from Rwanda and Kabila therefore an instrument to exercise Rwandan influence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The former intelligence chief of Zaire, Honoré Ngbanda Zambo ko Atumba claims that Joseph Kabila was the son of the Rwandan opposition members Kanambe Christopher and Marcelline Mukambukuje.
Kabila attended primary and secondary schools in Fizi, belongs to the territory of Hewa Bora, as well as in Dar -es- Salaam and Mbeya in Tanzania. Therefore, he speaks not widespread in the west of the country and thus also in the capital, local language Lingala. Then he began a military career in Tanzania and was given military training in Uganda and Rwanda. In 1996, he joined the troops of his father and was a commander in the First Congo War. After his father had won this and had become president of the Congo, Kabila studied in 1998 at the National Defense University in Beijing and was then Major General and a member of the General Staff in Kabila's army. In 2000, he was Army Chief of Staff.
Presidency since 2001
After Laurent- Désiré Kabila had succumbed to an attack on 16 January 2001, Joseph Kabila was appointed on 26 January 2001 to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He tried to give the torn by civil war, a little stability by reducing the presence of foreign troops, mostly from Rwanda and Uganda. He let peacekeepers of the United Nations, MONUC, in the country, should monitor the crossfire between rebels, local troops and foreign troops.
In December 2002, a peace agreement between the rebels and the government was closed, after which under his direction a party government was formed in July. This was mandated to prepare free elections that took place in 2006. On 28 April 2004, a failed coup against Joseph Kabila, who had been well organized by ancient followers of former president Mobutu Sese Seko.
Kabila commanded the Guards Spéciale de Sécurité Présidentielle ( GSSP, Presidential Guard ), consisting of 15,000 elite soldiers. Since, in contrast to the 2002 peace treaty agreed no national army was formed, it has - similar to the co-ruling warlords in other regions - the military autocracy in the capital Kinshasa. Other units of the GSSP maintains Kabila in Lubumbashi and Kisangani.
In the election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 30 July 2006, he received the most votes, but not an absolute majority, which is why on 29 October 2006 was a runoff between him and Jean -Pierre Bemba. Kabila won this runoff election with 58.05 % of votes and therefore was sworn in on December 6, 2006 as the new president.
Marriage
Kabila married in June 2006, his longtime girlfriend Olive Lembe, with whom he has a daughter since 2001. The Kabila family - Joseph Kabila's twin sister Jeanette and his mother - is funded by the " lucrative business with state-owned mining concessions ."