Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Yet without external help (and as long as Rwanda backs Laurent Kabila's Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Kinshasa AFDL) a Zaïrean counter-attack is unlikely to succeed...

Plans for the intervention force to seize Goma and Bukavu airports from opposition forces led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila and the Banyamulenge rebels seem to have been shelved – and with them President Mobutu Sese Seko's hopes that a military-backed humanitarian mission might help break the opposition hold on Kivu...

Kigali's Minister of Defence and Vice-President Major General Paul Kagamé is condemned by many Francophones as an agent of 'Anglo-Saxon expansionism'; so are Laurent Kabila's forces the Tutsi Banyamulenge rebels and others in the Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Kinshasa...

When Laurent-Désiré Kabila's army and the Banyamulenge overran the Goma and Muganga refugee camps they found military supplies and documents from Kenya and Britain and showed them on television...

However the force's first major (and highly sensitive) job will be to take Bukavu and Goma airports from rebel forces – mainly Laurent-Désiré Kabila' s Alliance des Forces Démocratiques des Peuples Banyamulenge rebels and Rwandan troops – and this is likely to be undertaken by non-French (probably United States') forces...

AFDL leader Laurent Kabila also heads one of its four components the Parti de la Révolution Populaire...