Laurent-Désiré Kabila

As Mobutu's rule approached its end in 1997 Goetz went into business with future President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's Alliance des forces démocratiques pour la libération du Congo-Zaïre agreeing a 1...

For Gertler who arrived in Kinshasa in 1997 aged 23 just after rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila had marched across the country to take the city the usual rules have never applied...

His replacement in the cabinet is Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary a former Governor of Maniema under the regime of Kabila's late father Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

In the meantime however Kinshasa's central road the Boulevard du 30 Juin had been festooned with banners proclaiming the national dialogue calling it a 'Congolese tradition' and invoking the apparently sacred name of the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

Beyond that the very idea of splitting Katanga into four – the rich Lualaba (Kolwezi) and Upper Katanga (Lubumbashi) provinces and the poorer Tanganyika (Kalemie) and Upper Lomami (Kamina) – is extremely unpopular in North Katanga where Kabila's late father President Laurent-Désiré Kabila was born and where Mai-Mai activity is widespread...

Amisi was a rebel with the Alliance des forces démocratiques pour la libération du Congo-Zaïre (AFDL) which swept Kabila's late father Laurent-Désiré Kabila to power in 1997 and later with the Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie-Goma (AC Vol 39 No 14 Embattled Kabila)...

The government is desperate to replenish its armaments many of them lost in the Congo-Kinshasa war when Zimbabwe intervened to save the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila's regime from insurgents in 1998-2002 (AC Vol 41 No 11 Glittering prizes from the war)...

The party created a subsidiary of the bank in Congo during Zimbabwe's military campaign to prop up the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila's regime after it came under attack from Rwandan and Ugandan troops in 1998...

The late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila had encouraged the formation of local defence forces...