Obama dines with leader of massive child army and rape capital of the world

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On Sunday the White House welcomed a controversial head of state who got his start as chieftain of a 'child army' in a 1990s genocide, presides over the world's biggest safe haven for rapists, and has been linked to the murders of human rights activists.

Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has given Barack Obama a continent-sized black eye, and this week 's high-profile U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit – the largest-ever gathering of African leaders by an American president – is barely underway.

On Tuesday night Kabila will be a guest at a White House dinner hosted by the president and first lady, and reverberations are beginning to echo around Capitol Hill.

'Kabila is everything that’s wrong with Africa rolled up into one evil package,' a senior congressional aide close to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee told MailOnline on Monday.

'Having him to dinner at the White House and giving him equal footing with countries like South Africa and Morocco is embarrassing and just plain wrong.'