Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Rwanda maintains President Paul Kagamé's 4 June meeting with Congolese President Laurent Kabila in Kenya was routine...

President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's regime has been able to hold the Kasaï diamond fields only because of military backing from Angolan and most importantly Zimbabwean troops...

After considering all the African factors Mbeki has concluded that the only way to tackle the regional crisis is by trying above all to persuade the combatants in the Congo and Angola - Mugabe Laurent Kabila Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos and Namibia's Sam Nujoma - that they would gain real economic and political advantages by enforcing the Lusaka II peace accord agreed in Kampala last month...

A Zimbabwean withdrawal from Congo would certainly endanger the increasingly unpopular regime of President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

Several of Rautenbach's Zimbabwean employees were arrested we hear after they tore down notices in Gécamines headquarters announcing the firing of Rautenbach and break-up of CMG (a joint venture between his Ridgepointe Company in which some ministers of President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government had a stake and Gécamines)...

Mnangagwa is a supporter of the Zimbabwean companies that supply the forces propping up Laurent-Désiré Kabila's regime in Congo...

It is not yet time to write off President Laurent-Désiré Kabila whose government is trying to climb out of the deep economic hole it has dug itself...

The men who lead Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government were mostly in exile until he seized power in 1997 and owe their status to presidential favour rather than local power-base...

His discussions with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and South African President Thabo Mbeki messages on debt to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and entertaining of such personages as Congo-Kinshasa's Laurent-Désiré Kabila fill local media (slipping back into bad old habits under pressure from a presidency which believes state television is for state spokespeople)...

President Laurent-Désiré Kabila insists he didn't give an inch...