Laurent-Désiré Kabila

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...

President Laurent-Désiré Kabila had hoped that his opponents' quarrels would bring him a quick victory...

After the MLC was set up Laurent Kabila appointed Bemba's father ex-Mobutu Sese Seko minister Jeannot Bemba Saolona as Economy Minister...

Relations with Kinshasa have got worse since President Laurent-Désiré Kabila suspects Sassou-Nguesso may be sheltering Mobutist soldiers and may also have had connections with northern rebel leader Jean-Pierre Mbemba...

Rwanda maintains President Paul Kagamé's 4 June meeting with Congolese President Laurent Kabila in Kenya was routine...