Laurent-Désiré 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...

The Commission's Chairman is Christophe Lutundula (Opposition Politique) a lawyer and experienced politician who was Vice-President of the Haut Conseil de la République-Parlement de Transition until its dissolution by the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in May 1997...

Financial networks threatened The belligerents are in theory subject to an integrated command but military resources are still largely controlled by the Maison Militaire a group of mostly Katangese commanders who were close to Kabila's murdered father President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...