After six months in office, Joseph Kabila, the unelected leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is still proving to the world just exactly how different he is from his slain father, Laurent Désiré Kabila. For a start, he is making friends abroad as fast as his father lost them before one of his bodyguards allegedly murdered him last January. More scary for some, he is even befriending his father's enemies.
At the weekend, the young Kabila opened an agricultural show in Lusaka, Zambia. Before his death, his father had treated Frederick Chiluba, the chief mediator appointed by African leaders, with such contempt that the Zambian leader was finding it difficult to do his job. Young Kabila even broke bread with him.
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