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Congo-Kinshasa

Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Date of Birth: 27 November 1939
Place of Birth: Likasi, Congo-K
Died: 18 January 2001


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A new political season

At the heart of the latest controversy is the constitutional hiatus between the end on 30 June of the formal powers of President Laurent Kabila's transitional government and the handover to an elected government which will not be possible before the end of the year...


Front-runners and hopefuls

former General Norbert Likulia Bolongo who was army commander when Laurent-Désiré Kabila's forces chased Mobutu from power in 1997; 4...


Looking into the abyss

That would leave the 'Balubakat' in control of relatively poor Haut-Lomami and Tanganyika already ravaged by the Mai-Mai militias created by the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...


Full circle

The troubled Sengamines diamond operation is back where it started six years ago when a group of Gulf Arab businessmen and Zimbabwean generals carved out a chunk of the state's mining concessions around Mbuji-Mayi in an opaque trade-off with the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...


Torturers beware

In 1998 the state prosecutor decided the visiting Congo-Kinshasa President the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila had immunity as a serving head of state...


Post-war clean up

The Commission's Chairman is Christophe Lutundula (Opposition Politique) a lawyer and experienced politician who was Vice-President of the Haut Conseil de la République-Parlement de Transition until its dissolution by the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in May 1997...


Transition on hold, again

Financial networks threatened The belligerents are in theory subject to an integrated command but military resources are still largely controlled by the Maison Militaire a group of mostly Katangese commanders who were close to Kabila's murdered father President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...


The Kivus jolt Kinshasa, again

Both had been condemned to death by a court-martial for allegedly taking part in the murder of Joseph's father President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in January 2001...


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