Joseph Kabila
President of the DR Congo from 2001 to 2019 · DR Congo · On the map · Politicians · Born 1971 · age 55
Joseph Kabila Kabange is a Congolese politician and former military officer who was the fourth president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2001 to 2019. He took office ten days after the assassination of his father, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila, in the context of the Second Congo War.
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Kabila (left) in New York City in 2002, with Thabo Mbeki, George W. Bush, and Paul Kagame
Kabila at the Pentagon in 2003
The ceremonial first train on the newly reconstructed Lubumbashi-Kindu railway in 2004, bearing Kabila's portrait
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Kabila with George W. Bush in 2007
Kabila with Paul Kagame at the border near Goma in 2009
Kabila with Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the UN, in 2017In their own words 1
, I'm not a warmonger. And I’m not a pacifist either. But I like peace.
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He was allowed to remain in power as the president of the new transitional government after the 2002 peace agreements ended the war. Kabila founded the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) and was elected president in 2006. He was re-elected for a second term in 2011. Since stepping down after the 2018 election, Kabila, as a former president, is a senator for life. Kabila was the country's second-longest serving president.
