Laurent-Désiré Kabila

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...

President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's regime has been able to hold the Kasaï diamond fields only because of military backing from Angolan and most importantly Zimbabwean troops...

After considering all the African factors Mbeki has concluded that the only way to tackle the regional crisis is by trying above all to persuade the combatants in the Congo and Angola - Mugabe Laurent Kabila Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos and Namibia's Sam Nujoma - that they would gain real economic and political advantages by enforcing the Lusaka II peace accord agreed in Kampala last month...