Africa Confidential understands that at the height of Laurent Kabila's war against Mobutu President Déby with Elysée encouragement sent arms supplied by Libya and Chinese-made weapons from Sudan to Mobutistes...
On 11-12 February in Harare the OAU's Central Organ (‘security council') will consider the 1994 Rwandan genocide the consequent Hutu refugee crisis in Zaïre and the killings during Laurent Kabila's overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko...
That approximately is how Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government starts 1998...
Vol 38 No 25 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
While Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government has almost unequivocal backing from its neighbours (apart from Sudan) Western states are less convinced...
After her encounter with Museveni Albright's tour neatly segues into Central Africa: meetings with General Paul Kagamé and President Laurent-Désiré Kabila are planned for 11 and 12 December...
Vol 38 No 24 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
A brass plaque outside the smart new offices of the Banque de Commerce et de Développement in Kinshasa's main street Boulevard du 30- Juin proclaims that they were opened by President Laurent-Désiré Kabila on 25 October...
Now with his ally Laurent-Désiré Kabila in charge of what was Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaïre and English-speaking businessmen making fortunes there Uganda looks like the entry point for the emerging markets of the Great Lakes region...
Gilchrist lives in Ghana and has a Ghanaian diplomatic passport; he also has the backing of Laurent Kabila's regime in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
Enough political leaders were present to make the summit look convincing but the absentees as well as Nigeria's General Sani Abacha Congo-Kinshasa's Laurent Kabila and Sudan's Omar el Beshir included Paul Biya of Cameroon (busy forming a government) Ben Mkapa of Tanzania (at his party's congress) and regional kingpins Daniel arap Moi of Kenya Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Nelson Mandela of South Africa...