Laurent-Désiré 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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

The closest to a military candidate is parliamentary Speaker and former intelligence chief Emmerson Mnangagwa who was the prime mover behind the military intervention to support President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in Congo-Kinshasa...

Bemba effectively abandoned the Lusaka agreement months ago arguing that he had to resist attacks from Congolese President Laurent Kabila and his allies in the north-western province of Equateur...

Their common theme is growing impatience with President Laurent-Désiré Kabila and his obstruction of the peace process...

President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is increasingly relying on mercenary soldiers and bomber pilots as he prepares for a new round of fighting with the disparate rebel factions across the country...