Congo’s Kabila faces daunting reconstruction task
Joseph Kabila will be sworn in on Wednesday as Congo’s first freely elected president in more than four decades, but he faces a mammoth task to satisfy popular expectations after years of war, dictatorship and chaos. Topping his list of challenges will be reuniting a politically divided nation, disarming and re-integrating tens of thousands of gunmen and providing a semblance of social services in a huge country ravaged by conflict, corruption and neglect. Full Story