Laurent-Désiré Kabila

The grandiose project fits perfectly with Angola's regional strategy in particular the incorporation of Sonangol (Congo) in Kinshasa with President Laurent Kabila's Minister of State Pierre-Victor Mpoyo as its chief executive...

Like his new-found regional ally and business partner President Laurent-Désiré Kabila Mugabe isn't unduly perturbed by what he regards as a few local difficulties...

Despite Bizimungu's conciliatory noises few had expected a useful meeting between him and the embattled Congo-K President Laurent-Désiré Kabila whose contradictory statements on the summit's last day clouded matters further...

Yet Kenya has long openly flouted the embargo along with Zambia and Rwanda while President Laurent-Désiré Kabila exempted Congo- Kinshasa when he himself seized power in May 1997...

Congo-Kinshasa President Laurent-Désiré Kabila was the first African leader to feel the effects of Britain's landmark ruling that Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet no longer enjoyed immunity for murders kidnap and torture committed under his regime...

Kinshasa's Foreign Minister Jean-Charles Okoto told Pretoria's Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo on 17 November that President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government would never meet the rebel Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie as it saw it as a mere front for external aggression by Rwanda and Uganda...

Even a tacit agreement about political cooperation between Tshisekedi and the RCD would swell the rebels' political base enormously and effectively turn Laurent Kabila's forces (and their allies) in Mbuji Mayi into an army of occupation...

Bongo is also being marginalised by the growing assertiveness of President José Eduardo dos Santos' government in Angola whose military might and economic power have been critical in propping up Laurent Kabila's beleaguered Kinshasa regime...

It also lacks leverage with Kigali's opponents Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government in Kinshasa; Kabila is still indignant that the UN's welcome for the overthrow of the late Mobutu Sese Seko was confined to demands for an inquiry into human rights abuses during the war against the dictator...

President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's Angolan allies decided to take no more risks in the air...

EO started negotiations with besieged President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in mid-August a development based largely on its good relations with Kabila’s main allies in Luanda...