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...

The late President Laurent Kabila made him an ambassador then he formed the federalist Union nationale des fédéralistes du Congo (Unafec) and in 2006 became President of Katanga’s provincial assembly...

Despite having no military background in 1998 he became chief of Laurent Kabila’s personal military staff...

M23 could see off the FARDC at any time taking Bukavu and Kisangani and even penetrating down to Kinshasa as the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila‘s Alliance des forces démocratiques pour la libération du Congo (AFDL) did in 1997...

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...