KABILA Joseph

Joseph Kabila - President of DR Congo

Joseph Kabila, appointed head of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo - a quiet soldier who was accompanying his father during the campaign of opposition to Kinshasa in 1997. For this he was rewarded the title of commander of the armed forces of the Congo.

Less than two years after he abandoned his support for the rebels and began to fight against them, tk. ruandiysikie guerrillas tried to remove his father from power. His supporters hailed it as a war hero, his critics point out that if Joseph Kabila appears in some city, expect that any day of capture insurgents. Of course, the majority of military victories against the rebels in the greater extent - the work of armies of Zimbabwe and Angola, than their own armed forces of the Congo. But Joseph Kabila, seen as a particularly close relationship with Angolan military commanders in the DRC, whose long-term support of the Kinshasa Government attempts to protect the city from a new rebel attack.

A shy 31-year-old Joseph was a modest figure beside his father full-extrovert.

It is believed that Joseph - the oldest of 10 children Laurent Kabila, born from a few mothers. His mother belongs to the genus Tutsi, but Joseph grew up, where his father was in exile in East Africa, and therefore easier to talk in English and Swahili than in French or Lingala, as is customary in Kinshasa.

. Observers utsverzhdayut that in general, the population of the Congo are not amused by the fact that Joseph would inherit his father's seat in the presidential palace.