Laurent-Désiré Kabila

He is suing several Belgian newspapers for reporting on his companies' operations in Katanga and was allowed to give testimony to the Belgian senate in camera on such delicate issues as why he bought 70 Toyota vehicles used by the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila to transport government troops to the front line...

It nearly overthrew the subsequent regime of Laurent Kabila with a daring airlift of troops cross-country to the Atlantic port of Matadi and beat the better equipped Ugandan troops in three battles for control of Kisangani's diamond trade...

Kazadi Nyembwe: Director Agence Nationale de Renseignement; godfather of President Joseph Kabila; long time business associate of ex-President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

Saleh reaps the rewards This month Saleh was in Kinshasa seeking Mbuji-Mayi diamond concessions from Kabila whose late father President Laurent-Désiré Kabila had rewarded Saleh with gold and diamond concessions for planning the capture of several Congolese towns in 1997...

They range from Laurent Kabila's former guerrillas to warlords ethnic militias and (more recently) men who have simply lost their livelihood; their number is estimated at 30 000 and is growing all the time especially since the APR's departure improved the prospects for looting...

The case in Belgium has been in limbo since a ruling by the International Court of Justice at the Hague over charges filed in Brussels against Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi Congo-Kinshasa's Foreign Minister under the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

Two days later his party organised Kinshasa's largest demonstration since Laurent-Désiré Kabila came to power in May 1997 (AC Vol 38 No 11)...

At Kinshasa's central prison on 15 March a military court began trying some 125 suspects charged with plotting the assassination of the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila (AC Vol 43 No 2)...

He fought beside Laurent Kabila against the late President Mobutu Sese Seko's regime became identified as pro-Rwandan and was gaoled from 1997 to 2000 for allegedly conspiring against Kabila...

The strategy soured under Mobutu's successor President Laurent-Désiré Kabila who allied himself with Angola and Zimbabwe united in their suspicion of South Africa...

By 1997 Rwanda and Uganda were together backing Congolese rebel Laurent-Désiré Kabila and helped install him as Congo's President (a disastrous one it turned out)...

The Lusaka accord said nothing to help him decide which groups qualify - there were over 400 candidates when Laurent-Désiré Kabila took power in May 1997 and 97 candidates sought and obtained recognition from the government of his son Joseph...

Also missing is April's audit of the diamond giant Minière de Bakwanga (Miba) whose Chairman and Chief Executive Jean-Charles Okoto (one of Laurent-Désiré Kabila's nominations) still holds his job...