Laurent-Désiré Kabila

At Kinshasa's central prison on 15 March a military court began trying some 125 suspects charged with plotting the assassination of the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila (AC Vol 43 No 2)...

He fought beside Laurent Kabila against the late President Mobutu Sese Seko's regime became identified as pro-Rwandan and was gaoled from 1997 to 2000 for allegedly conspiring against Kabila...

The strategy soured under Mobutu's successor President Laurent-Désiré Kabila who allied himself with Angola and Zimbabwe united in their suspicion of South Africa...

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...