Katanga is one of the provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Between 1971 and 1997 (during the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko when Congo was known as Zaire), its official name was Shaba Province.

Katanga's regional capital is Lubumbashi. Its area is 497,000 km², larger than California and 16 times larger than Belgium. Farming and ranching are carried out on the Katanga Plateau. The eastern part of the province is a rich mining region, which supplies cobalt, copper, tin, radium, uranium, and diamonds. The capital city, Lubumbashi, is the second largest city in the Congo.

Moïse Katumbi Chapwe, a businessman, is the governor of Katanga province. He took office on 24 February 2007.

Copper mining is an important part of the economy of Katanga province. Cobalt mining by individual contractors is also prevalent. There are a number of reasons cited for the discrepancy between the vast mineral wealth of the province and the failure of the wealth to increase the overall standard of living. Gécamines is the state owned mining company which has monopoly concessions in the province.

Moïse Katumbi Chapwe (born 28 December 1964) is a Congolese businessman and politician. He is the governor of the Katanga Province, located in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was the first elected governor of the province and he voted for the first time (at age 42) during that election.

Katumbi is the younger brother of Raphael Katebe Katoto, also a Congolese businessman, now living in Belgium.

In the year he became governor, Katumbi began discussions to resolve the Kalukundi Mine ownership dispute of Africo Resources, Ltd., a Canadian mining company with a significant presence in the Katanga province.

Born to a Jewish father, Nissim Soriano, one of the many Sephardic Jews who emigrated to the Congo from the Greek Rhodes Island (then under Italian rule) and a Congolese women, young Moise had to change his last name to that of his great grandfather on his mother’s side during the reign of Congo’s dictator Mobutu. Governor Moïse Katumbi has often been affectionately dubbed by his admirers as Africa’s Obama. He was a self made man who made his first profit of $40 at the age of 13 by selling fish.

Joseph Kabila Kabange (known commonly as Joseph Kabila, born June 4, 1971) is a Congolese politician who has been President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January 2001. He took office ten days after the assassination of his father, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila. He was elected as President in 2006. In 2011, he was re-elected for a second term.

Joseph Kabila Kabange was born on June 4, 1971 at Hewabora, a small village in the Fizi territory of the South Kivu province, in Eastern Congo. He is the son of long time rebel, former AFDL leader and president of the Congo Laurent-Désiré Kabila and Sifa Mahanya.

Following high school, Joseph Kabila followed a military curriculum in Tanzania, then at Makerere University in Uganda. In October 1996, Laurent-Désiré Kabila launched the campaign in Zaire to oust the Mobutu regime. Joseph became the commander of the infamous army of "kadogos" (child soldiers) and played a key role in major battles on the road to Kinshasa. The liberation army received logistical and military support from regional armies from Rwanda, Uganda, Angola and Zimbabwe. Following the AFDL's victory, and Laurent-Désiré Kabila's rise to the presidency, Joseph Kabila went on to get further training at the PLA National Defense University, in Beijing, China.