MUGABE Only Head Of State At KABILA’s DRC Presidential INAUGURATION

ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe was the only foreign head of state present as Joseph Kabila was sworn-in for a new term as president if the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday.
The state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) claimed Mugabe was joined by uother heads of state and government but international news agencies covering the event said other African countries were only represented by ministers.
Mugabe – who sent troops to back Kabila’s father, Laurent, during the country’s conflict – travelled to the DRC on Monday evening accompanied by defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior government officials.
Regional powerhouse, South Africa said it would send its Foreign Minister, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, after describing the elections as “generally OK”.
Opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi maintains he won the poll and says he will swear himself in on Friday, raising fears of renewed street violence in the capital Kinshasa where he is popular.
Kabila’s inauguration went ahead after the country’s Supreme Court upheld his victory in the disputed election.
Speaking after his swearing-in, Kabila said that the electoral process represented the first time in Congo’s history that a presidential mandate had ended without a crisis, and praised Congolese for their discipline.
“You were asked to choose on the one hand between an illusory promise based on incendiary language, and on the other hand the consolidation of peace and stability,” he said.
He promised to improve the business climate and rebuild infrastructure destroyed during decades of conflict.
“We are going to pursue an improvement of the business climate to better serve investors. We are also going to pursue and accelerate the reconstruction of the country.”
The November 28 poll marked
the second presidential contest
since a 1998-2003 war that
killed more than 5 million people,
and was seen as key to
cementing gains in a country
that lies on the bottom of the
U.N. index for human
development – a measure of
average wealth, education and
life expectancy.

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13 Responses to MUGABE Only Head Of State At KABILA’s DRC Presidential INAUGURATION

njonginjo

December 21, 2011 at 6:38 am

Rubbish
mystery lady

December 21, 2011 at 6:46 am

congolese dnt start fighting and come running to zed. very crooked guys.
jeff

December 21, 2011 at 7:53 am

That speaks volume. The results are doctered like mmd
nakferd

December 21, 2011 at 8:42 am

eeee!!! mugabe? imwe ma congolee dont rush to zambia after your stupidity.
meswin

December 21, 2011 at 9:24 am

The congolese opposition party shuld learn from the PF!! Sata lost 3 times due to the MMD tricks. But now PF is in government.
PEACE

December 21, 2011 at 9:43 am

Shame on u Joseph Kabila.those elections were not free and fair, its clear u lost. Am sure that is why u invited your fellow loser CHI MUGABE!!!African leader can’t for sure learn from Zambia. Am sure if u had invited Sata he wud have refused considering the manner the fact that A LOSER WAS BEING INAUGRURATED! SHAME ON YOU!
ibolo

December 21, 2011 at 10:43 am

you dogs what does MMD have to do with this??
janet c

December 21, 2011 at 11:22 am

Chipuba sana chi Kabila – he might just end up like his father then, shot by his own bodyguard!!! No losses there – contemporary Africa does not need such idiots in power
tas

December 21, 2011 at 3:05 pm

the fundamental reality is that in Africa, in the words of Malcom X It’ll be the ballot or the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. I leave you to digest.
Bravo

December 21, 2011 at 7:07 pm

People just make bad comments by not knowing the reality in DRC.
The elections went on with some irregularities in some polling stations and those polling stations did not have a lot of voters.
The person who worn is Joseph Kabila and the other man declared himself as president even before elections and do you call this democracy?
The best person as at now is Joseph Kabila.
If the votes are wrong in democracy, you have to use the right channels and not violence.
woundedbuffallo2012

December 22, 2011 at 9:26 am

One Bwezi.B was invited to help him (kabila).Ka Mugabe eke ngayako pantu takawinapo.Some African leaders bafwaikwafye ifi polopolo pakwebati onse uwayapo it’s ringing in his his mind.Zambia is full of congolees as well as zimbabweans because of the idiots leading these countries.
desk

December 23, 2011 at 5:52 pm

mugabe is **** up president , please we won’t following him .
concerned

January 13, 2012 at 10:28 am

U zambians dnt speak rubbish of congolese,there r a lot of yo brothers and sisters in lubumbashi too!!!!!!!! Beware