2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election
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General elections were held in Democratic Republic of the Congo on 28 November 2011; a facultative run-off on 26 February 2012 was shelved with a change in election laws.
Image: Joseph Kabila April 2016
Image: Etienne Tshisekedi (5811619100) (cropped)
Voters standing in line in Walikale.
Electoral campaign posters in Ndjili, Kinshasa
Joseph Kabila
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Joseph Kabila Kabange is a Congolese politician who served as President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between January 2001 and January 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 after the 2003 Pretoria Accord ended the war as the president of the country's new transitional government. He was elected as president in 2006 and re-elected in 2011 for a second term. Since stepping down after the 2018 election, Kabila, as a former president, serves as a senator for life.
Kabila in 2016
Kabila in 2003
Kabila in 2002, with Thabo Mbeki, George W. Bush, and Paul Kagame.
The ceremonial first train on the newly reconstructed Lubumbashi–Kindu railway in 2004, bearing a portrait of Kabila.