The trial of Democratic Republic of Congo's former leader Joseph Kabila on charges including treason will open on Friday in Kinshasa, according to a court document seen by AFP on Thursday.

The Democratic Republic of Congo, located in Central Africa, has endured decades of conflict and instability despite being ...

Kabila led Congo from 2011 to 2019, taking office at the age of 29 and extending his mandate by delaying elections for two years after his term was ended in 2017. His father, former President ...

Outgoing president Joseph Kabila sits during the inauguration ceremony for Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thursday Jan. 24, 2019.

Joseph Kabila, the son of slain Congo leader Laurent Kabila, assumes the presidency of a troubled nation in central Africa. Joseph Kabila succeeded his father as president of Africa's third ...

KINSHASA, Congo — Congo may be approaching its first peaceful, democratic transfer of power in nearly 60 years, but Joseph Kabila, who has been president for the last 17, refused to rule out a ...

Joseph Kabila was literally born into his father's revolution, up in the rebel maquis, or stronghold, called Hewa Bora, in the eastern Congolese region known as Fizi-Baraka, along Lake Tanganyika.

Kabila insisted to parliament that elections would go ahead in 2017, but his budget minister said in February that the government would need to mobilize $1.8 billion to hold the vote.

It’s time for Joseph Kabila to go. December 29, 2018 Congolese riot policemen ride on a pickup truck as they patrol the streets ahead of the presidential election in Kinshasa, Congo, on Saturday.