Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi former Vice-President and Foreign Minister under President Laurent Kabila was also a member of Kim’s Kinshasa-based fan club...

North Korea built the monument of former President Laurent-Désiré Kabila that stands before the Place de la République; more recently Korean advisors trained the Congolese military...

After Kinshasa gave Gertler's firm Idi Diamonds a monopoly on buying and exporting diamonds on 31 July 2000 Gertler encouraged the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila to employ an Israeli private company to train his police...

President Joseph Kabila owes a lot to Angola's rulers who helped his late father Laurent-Désiré Kabila to overthrow President Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 then supported him against armed uprisings in 1998-2003...

Angolan troops helped to stabilise Kinshasa after Laurent Kabila was murdered in January 2001 and ensured that Joseph replaced him ten days later...

Two weeks after Evariste Boshab a close ally of President Joseph Kabila was elected Speaker of the National Assembly and the independent-minded Vital Kamerhe had been forced from the Speaker's post minority politicians are complaining about a return to a 'single-party' behaviour reminiscent of Presidents Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent Kabila...

Some see a return to the 'single-party' behaviour familiar under the late Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

It was when he was Foreign Minister in Laurent Désiré Kabila's government (1998-2001) that Pyongyang became interested in the uranium discovered in Katanga...

George Forrest headed the state-owned Gécamines under President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in the late 1990s and is a friend of European Development Commissioner Louis Michel...

The Forum also claims that Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila (1997-2001) was assassinated on orders from Rwandan President Paul Kagame to preempt a rapprochement with China...

But the President kept several crucial aspects of government out of the Prime Minister's hands: defence security and control of the Central Bank which were placed under a Kabila loyalist Jean-Claude Masangu who had been appointed by Kabila's father Laurent-Désiré Kabila...