Word: kabila
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...ballots in Florida, nobody would dream of trying to reverse the result. No matter what they think about how he got there, Bush's victory is accepted as a fait accompli across the political spectrum in Washington. Not so the selection of Gloria Arroyo in the Philippines and Joseph Kabila in the Congo...
...Joseph Kabila's 'Life of Brian...
...Arroyo's troubles are small potatoes compared with those of Congo's President (or is he?) Joseph Kabila. In almost every photograph, the 31-year-old army officer appears to be wearing an expression that screams "Help! How did I get here?" Hardly surprising, since his father's assassination last week has propelled him improbably to the presidency of a country that nobody is quite sure still exists, having been effectively carved up by the armies of its neighbors. His inauguration was postponed for a second time Thursday, ostensibly because the country's supreme court was still trying to compose...
...course the delay may be of some help to Joseph Kabila, since it'll give him time to bone up on his French in order to be able to address the nation whose presidency he's about to assume. Having been raised in Uganda speaking English and Swahili, Joseph Kabila is essentially a foreigner in a country where the national language is French and the most common indigenous tongue is Lingala. And that may be appropriate, since his power base is entirely foreign, too - the thousands of Zimbabwean and Angolan troops that took over the capital during the funeral...
...Rwanda and Uganda, occasionally fought each other, too, for control of the spoils in the regions they occupied), and African and foreign diplomats have been trying ever since to implement a peace agreement that would have them withdraw and restore some form of democratic rule in Congo. And although Kabila was most consistently blamed - even by his allies - for wrecking the peace process, it's far from clear that any of his interventionist neighbors will ultimately let go of their stake in a country where, despite the absence of the most basic economic infrastructure, rich mineral deposits mean there...