 Finally there is a government paramilitary force , created in 1997 under President Laurent Kabila . The National Service is tasked with providing the army with food and with training the youth in a range of reconstruction and developmental activities . There is not much further information available , and no internet @-@ accessible source details the relationship of the National Service to other armed forces bodies ; it is not listed in the constitution . President Kabila , in one of the few comments available , says National Service will provide a gainful activity for street children . <unk> civil service administered through the armed forces was also proposed under the Mobutu regime during the ' radicalisation ' programme of December 1974 @-@ January 1975 ; the FAZ was opposed to the measure and the plan ' took several months to <unk> 
