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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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Hope springs eternal

His father Laurent-Désiré Kabila and his Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Yerodia kept postponing the peace process by rejecting Masire on the grounds that he was not neutral...

' Kabila and his team have not yet confronted Laurent Kabila's ideologues including Raphaël Ghenda a fan of North Korea's late President Kim Il Sung...

Further roadblocks could be created by Laurent Kabila's creation the Constituent and Legislative Assembly-Transitional Parliament (ACL-PT) few of whose members are likely to sit in a future transitional assembly and who will be worried about their own financial prospects...

Now the civilians are moving to sweep away the wreckage of Laurent Kabila's regime...


How high the summit

Chirac condemned the assassination of President Laurent-Désiré Kabila more strongly than many of his African colleagues...


Saved by the cash

During Bemba's successful offensive in Equateur in mid-1999 several hundred troops of the then President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's Forces Armées Congolaises (FAC) fled across the Oubangui River into CAR...


Le Petit looks good

Last autumn Laurent Kabila stormed at the Belgian Foreign Trade Secretary Annemie Neyts who came to ask him to join the Lusaka process...


Congo-Kinshasa: Kabila est mort, vive Kabila!

Congolese doubt official information especially after the three-day-long 'non-death' of President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

Sylvain Lwesha Laurent Kabila's old comrade in the Kivu period is 75 and Chief of General Staff; he was interrogated by a military committee of inquiry on 19 January because he comes from the same region as the killer...

Célestin Kifwa Inspector General of the Police d'Intervention Rapide was an officer in the Angolan army and commands a force modelled on Angolan lines; he was also brother-in-law to Laurent Kabila...


The pro-consuls decide

Whoever the long-term successor to Laurent-Désiré Kabila may be Angola wants to have a say in the choice...

Some of the people who genuinely regret the loss of Laurent Kabila have deplored the promotion of his son Joseph Kabila declaring that Congo 'is not a monarchy' and calling for dialogue...


Laurent's legacy

The late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila left an unfinished mystery for Burundi...


Not franc

The assassination of Congo-Kinshasa's President Laurent-Désiré Kabila played havoc with the running order at Cameroon's Franco-African summit the 21st since 1973...


Congo imbroglio

Two developments could help peace efforts in Congo-Kinshasa this year: gathering political and financial pressure on the foreign combatants to withdraw their troops and a near consensus among all parties that President Laurent-Désiré Kabila be replaced by a leader more willing to negotiate with political opponents...


Bonding in Brussels

President Laurent-Désiré Kabila rejects the idea enshrined in the Lusaka agreement of July 1999 of all-party talks about his country's constitutional future...


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