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Congo-Kinshasa

Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Date of Birth: 27 November 1939
Place of Birth: Likasi, Congo-K
Died: 18 January 2001


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Museveni's backyard

In November its men crossed the border briefly occupied two trading villages near Kasese and were chased into Zaïre by the UPDF then hounded by Laurent-Désiré Kabila's Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo...

It doesn't want the rebellion to seem a consequence of Museveni's support for the successful rebellions in Rwanda and Congo or Sudan and claims the ADF survives only because Laurent Kabila's AFDL are not yet able to control the whole territory whose mountains constitute ideal guerrilla country...


Payback time

Much depends on whether President Laurent-Désiré Kabila whose control over the government's military and security still seems shaky can consolidate...

There may also be direct rewards for President Yoweri Museveni's support for Laurent Kabila: secret negotiations on the 'war debt' began at the end of June between Uganda's Vice-President Foreign Minister and former security chief Eriya Kategaya and the Democratic Republic of Congo's Foreign Minister Bizima Karaha...


Après le déluge – quoi?

Védrine is unlikely to give much higher priority to Africa than his predecessor Hervé de Charette although the arrival of Laurent-Désiré Kabila in Congo-Kinshasa will keep Védrine's eye on the region...


Constitutional counter

The Papal representative recently spoke in favour of peaceful reform while Kibaki hailed Laurent-Désiré Kabila's victory in Congo- Kinshasa...


Kabila's ghosts

For the 90 per cent of the population outside Kinshasa it was another confirmation that while President Laurent-Désiré Kabila and his soldiers had put Mobutu Sese Seko to flight they had no plans to replace dictatorship by broad-based democracy...


Paid fighters – and their paymasters

Stabilco first made contact with the Zaïrean military early last December when Laurent-Désiré Kabila's rebels were advancing on the Bunia goldfields north-eastern Zaïre...


Financial headroom

Major shareholders including South Africa the United States and Britain called for the Bank to help reconstruction in the Democratic Republic of Congo if Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government commits itself to political and economic reform...


Hanging on

After his triumphal debut at the Organisation of African Unity summit (2-4 June) in Harare Laurent-Désiré Kabila returned to Kinshasa and a sea of problems...


New arrivals – north and south

If relations remain good with Laurent-Désiré Kabila's new government in République Démocratique du Congo full use will be made of Britain's impressive Kinshasa embassy commissioned during a spate of optimism in the 1980s...


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