Laurent-Désiré Kabila

The former Economy Minister in President Laurent-Désiré Kabila’s government had little trouble convincing Kinshasa since he was backed by the Zimbabwean government Anhui’s partner in the Anjin Investments project in the Marange diamond fields (AAC Vol 6 No 2) in Zimbabwe...

Several Zimbabwean officials and officers of the Zimbabwean Defence Force were partners in Osleg a company that worked with members of the late Laurent Kabila’s family in the Sengamines company...

There are obvious parallels between the current war and the rebellions of 1996 and 1998: the first led to the ousting of President Mobutu Sese Seko within a year; the second led to a succession of political crises resulting in the assassination of Mobutu’s successor Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

CENI officials are suspected of ensuring his defeat in Kabongo Katanga Province at the hands of one of the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila’s daughters Jaynet Kabila Kyungu after an implausible but official turnout of 92...

The Tajideens came to Congo in 1997 when the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila toppled Mobutu Sese Seko...

He is only the third Congolese – after the late Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and President Laurent-Désiré Kabila – to receive that honour...

He organised the rebel group that brought Laurent Kabila to power in the civil war of 1996-97 and became his business advisor using experience gained in South Africa working for Equator Bank and the mining equipment manufacturer Bateman...

When Laurent Kabila was murdered in January 2001 Katumba took his son Joseph under his wing becoming Minister in the Presidency responsible for state assets (while serving on the board of Australia’s Anvil Mining until 2004)...

Reverend Daniel Ngoy Mulunda the CENI Chairman is a cousin of Kabila's late father Laurent-Désiré Kabila suggesting a conflict of interest...

The CENI Chairman is the Reverend Daniel Ngoy Mulunda a cousin of the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila father of the current President who signed up last accompanied by over 3 000 dancing and cheering supporters...

Angola helped the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila to power in Kinshasa in 1997 and then supported his son President Joseph Kabila against his rival Jean-Pierre Bemba in 2007...

Luanda is said to favour Vital Kamerhe a former ally of Joseph Kabila’s and the Honorary President of the National Assembly founder and leader of the Union pour la nation congolaise who served under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent Kabila...

That will make the residual support for him in mineral-rich Katanga – birthplace of his assassinated father President Laurent-Désiré Kabila – all the more important...

Under the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila Munene was Deputy Minister of the Interior; he fled to Congo-Brazzaville where he was arrested in January...