Laurent-Désiré Kabila

By 1997 Rwanda and Uganda were together backing Congolese rebel Laurent-Désiré Kabila and helped install him as Congo's President (a disastrous one it turned out)...

The Lusaka accord said nothing to help him decide which groups qualify - there were over 400 candidates when Laurent-Désiré Kabila took power in May 1997 and 97 candidates sought and obtained recognition from the government of his son Joseph...

Also missing is April's audit of the diamond giant Minière de Bakwanga (Miba) whose Chairman and Chief Executive Jean-Charles Okoto (one of Laurent-Désiré Kabila's nominations) still holds his job...

The donors are encouraged because Kabila has made some changes that his late father President Laurent-Désiré Kabila never contemplated...

The man to beat was once Mobutu then Laurent Kabila; now it is Joseph Kabila...

In June 2000 Security Council Resolution 1304 called upon the Rwandan and Ugandan forces to withdraw from Kisangani distinguishing between them as 'aggressors' and the troops 'invited' into Congo by the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's regime...

His detractors said that the Ministry of Defence was in reality run by Emmerson Mnangagwa and pointed to Mahachi's blunder in January when he announced the death of Laurent Kabila as his colleagues still insisted he was 'resting' in a Harare hospital (AC Vol 42 No 2)...

President Robert Mugabe Chairman of the relevant SADC committee failed to get it to support deployment of Zimbabwean Angola and Namibian troops on the side of the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

The UN report passes over in a few paragraphs the involvement of Angola through (for example) the creation of Sonangol-Congo a company owned 60 per cent by the Angolan government and 40 per cent by mainly the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila; ditto for the Congo-Angola letter of intent for shared development of offshore oil...

The Kinshasa daily was reflecting widespread public approval of the President's Easter Saturday reshuffle that removed three of the four barons of the late Laurent Kabila's regime...

Tehran has refused Belgian diplomats access to their fellow-citizen who is accused in his own country of having negotiated the sale of Iranian arms to Laurent Kabila's government in Congo-Kinshasa in exchange for minerals including uranium 235...