Laurent-Désiré Kabila

A long-time collaborator of Mobutu Sese-Seko and both Kabila and his father former President Laurent-Désiré Kabila Forrest is involved in several mining partnerships in Katanga with Congo’s state company Gécamines...

• After the assassination of Laurent Kabila Katumba became Joseph Kabila's Minister of State in the President's Office in charge of state enterprises a key post for funding Operation Sovereign Legacy...

He was appointed Chairman of La Générale des Carrires et des Mines ( Gécamines) by the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in 1999...

He played a key role in Zimbabwe's Operation Sovereign Legitimacy in support of Congo's ex-President Laurent Kabila...

South Africa wanted revenge because Rautenbach and other Zimbabweans had opposed Rwanda’s 1998 bid to topple Congo’s then President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

DCP's Executive Chairman is Joseph Kabila's former Mines and Petroleum Minister Simon Tuma-Waku and the Deputy Chief Executive Emile Mota was formerly an advisor to the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

The favourite Senate candidate from Kabila's Alliance pour la Majorité Présidentielle was Léonard She Okitundu Minister of Human Rights then Foreign Affairs under the late President Laurent Kabila and special advisor to his son...

Many Congolese and diplomats reckon that the new regime is establishing absolute authority with as little regard for human rights as the previous regimes of Laurent-Désiré Kabila and Mobutu Sese Seko...

Angola has consistently backed Kabila's government by sending troops to back both him and his late father Laurent-Désiré Kabila and by supplying training and logistics to Congo's army...

Congo became used to hyper-inflation under Presidents Mobutu and Laurent Kabila...

One apocryphal story circulating in Kinshasa is that one of the old guard supporters of Laurent-Désiré Kabila took Joseph Kabila aside and pointing to his father's mausoleum explained to him that 'they' would bulldoze the mausoleum if he lost the presidency...