Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Many Congolese and diplomats reckon that the new regime is establishing absolute authority with as little regard for human rights as the previous regimes of Laurent-Désiré Kabila and Mobutu Sese Seko...

Angola has consistently backed Kabila's government by sending troops to back both him and his late father Laurent-Désiré Kabila and by supplying training and logistics to Congo's army...

Congo became used to hyper-inflation under Presidents Mobutu and Laurent Kabila...

One apocryphal story circulating in Kinshasa is that one of the old guard supporters of Laurent-Désiré Kabila took Joseph Kabila aside and pointing to his father's mausoleum explained to him that 'they' would bulldoze the mausoleum if he lost the presidency...

At the heart of the latest controversy is the constitutional hiatus between the end on 30 June of the formal powers of President Laurent Kabila's transitional government and the handover to an elected government which will not be possible before the end of the year...

former General Norbert Likulia Bolongo who was army commander when Laurent-Désiré Kabila's forces chased Mobutu from power in 1997; 4...

For example Congo-K's Wimbi Diri Airways was formed by the late President Laurent Kabila...

That would leave the 'Balubakat' in control of relatively poor Haut-Lomami and Tanganyika already ravaged by the Mai-Mai militias created by the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

The troubled Sengamines diamond operation is back where it started six years ago when a group of Gulf Arab businessmen and Zimbabwean generals carved out a chunk of the state's mining concessions around Mbuji-Mayi in an opaque trade-off with the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

In 1998 the state prosecutor decided the visiting Congo-Kinshasa President the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila had immunity as a serving head of state...