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https://www.businesslive.co.za/rdm/politics/2017-01-18-zuma-the-guptas-and-the-russians--the-inside-story/ Zuma is out since Valentine's Day.
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https://www.businesslive.co.za/rdm/world/2017-01-05-inside-joseph-kabilas-vast-business-empire/
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-Kabila at UN on 9-23-17
Following the AFDL's victory, and Laurent-Désiré Kabila's rise to the presidency, Joseph Kabila went on to get further training at the PLA National Defense University, in Beijing, China.
When he returned from China, Kabila was awarded the rank of Major-General, and appointed Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1998. He was later, in 2000, appointed Chief of Staff of the Land Forces, a position he held until the elder President Kabila's assassination in January 2001.[6] As chief of staff, he was one of the main military leaders in charge of government troops during the time of the Second Congo War (1998–2003).[4]...
In December 2011, Kabila was re-elected for a second term as president. After the results were announced on 9 December, there was violent unrest in Kinshasa and Mbuji-Mayi, where official tallies showed that a strong majority had voted for the opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi.[18] Official observers from the Carter Center reported that returns from almost 2,000 polling stations in areas where support for Tshisekedi was strong had been lost and not included in the official results. They described the election as lacking credibility.[19]...
Kabila is vastly unpopular, partly because of the conflicts in the Congo, but also because of the widespread belief that he has enriched himself and his family while ignoring millions of poor Congolese. There have been protests against his attempts to change term limits and extend his rule. Harsh demonstrations erupted on 20 April 2016 in Lubumbashi, one of Congo's biggest cities.[27]
When Moise Katumbi, the former governor of Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo and now an opposition figure, announced that he is running for president in an election that was supposed to be held by the end of 2016, his house was surrounded by security forces wanting to arrest him.[28]...
On 23 Decembe 2016 an agreement was proposed between the main opposition group and the Kabila government under which the latter agreed not to alter the constitution and to leave office before the end of 2017.[37] Under the agreement opposition leader Étienne Tshisekedi (died on 2-1-17) will oversee that the deal is implemented and the country's Prime Minister will be appointed by the opposition.[37] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kabila
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Shortly after, the government and the opposition signed a deal known as the Saint Sylvestre Accord, brokered by the Catholic church, requiring elections to be held “in December 2017 at the latest”. Protests at the tail end of 2016 resulted in dozens of deaths and hundreds of arrests.
Mr. Kabila now insists he must stay in power until December 2018 due to further delays in voter registration. ...
Meanwhile, Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni appears to have cleared the way for an indefinite grip on power. Having convinced his country to scrap the two-term limit back in 2005, the 73-year-old has signed a bill removing the presidential age limit of 75 from the constitution, a move backed overwhelmingly by Uganda’s Parliament.
December’s ousting of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe was remarked upon by many as a surprisingly smooth end to his almost 40-year rule. Earlier in 2017 Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos handed the reins to a successor. after 38 years in power, and Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf stood down after two terms as president. ...
The Congo government is “buying time in the hopes that the longer elections are delayed, the more difficult it will be for the opposition to remain united,” Carayannis told The World Weekly.
https://www.theworldweekly.com/reader/view/magazine/2018-01-04/congo-lashes-out-as-president-kabila-tries-to-hold-his-grip-on-power/10439
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-O. Ogunseitn: Be Afra, v. 1, 2010, p. 173
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