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Joseph Kabila
Power & Politics🇨🇩1971–Alive

Joseph Kabila

President of the DRC

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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. 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.

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This profile section is complemented from Wikipedia for Joseph Kabila. President of the DR Congo from 2001 to 2019

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Primary source page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kabila

Timeline

1970s
1971

Birth

Birth of Joseph Kabila.

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2020s
2026

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2026

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