He was allowed to remain in power after the Pretoria Accord ended the war as the president of the country's new transitional government. He was elected as president in and re-elected in for a second term. While in power, Kabila faced continuous wars in eastern Congo and internal rebel forces supported by the neighboring governments of Rwanda and Uganda.
Kabila's term was due to expire on 20 December , according to the terms of the constitution adopted in Officials suggested that elections would be held in November , but on 29 September , the nation's electoral authority announced that the election would not be held until early Talk focused on the need for a census before holding elections. Independent observers concluded that Tshisikedi lost heavily to another candidate, Martin Fayulu , and that Kabila had fixed the official result for the candidate most likely to be most helpful to him in the latter's post-presidency period.
Rumors have abounded that Kabila was actually born in Tanzania , which would make him a citizen of that country. Kabila's childhood coincided with the low point of his father's political and military career. He was raised in relative remoteness, with few records of his early days.
Kabila attended a primary school organized by his father's rebel forces, before moving to Tanzania where he completed primary and secondary school.
Due to his father's status as an enemy of Zairean strongman Mobutu Sese Seko , Kabila posed as a Tanzanian in his school years to avoid detection by Zairean intelligence agents. Following high school, Kabila followed a military curriculum in Tanzania , then at Makerere University in Uganda. Joseph Kabila became the commander of an AFDL unit that included " kadogos " child soldiers and likely played a key role in major battles on the road to Kinshasa, but his exact whereabouts during the war have been difficult to establish.
