Savimbi knows he's unlikely to have such a favourable position again with the entire Southern African region split over the Congo wars and his forces operating a de-facto alliance (at least) with rebel forces fighting President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's regime backed by Luanda...
That rebellion brought President Laurent-Désiré Kabila to power but failed to establish border security for Kampala and Kigali...
Lissouba insists that the arms shopping list sent to Belgian arms suppliers Labayfar was for President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in Kinshasa...
Laurent-Désiré Kabila's claims that UNITA was helping the Congo rebels persuaded Dos Santos to join the pro-Kabila alliance in August (AC Vol 39 No 16)...
Vol 40 No 2 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
That may help a de-escalation of the war and a phased withdrawal of some foreign troops (Angola has already substantially wound down its troop deployments) without pushing forward an agreement between President Laurent-Désiré Kabila and his armed opponents...
Now he wants Congo-K’s President Laurent-Désiré Kabila to help him fix up an accord with Angola partly to avert the kind of bombing President Lissouba underwent in October 1997 in Congo-Brazzaville...
Kenya backs Laurent-Désiré Kabila’s regime in Kinshasa but has sent no troops...
The grandiose project fits perfectly with Angola's regional strategy in particular the incorporation of Sonangol (Congo) in Kinshasa with President Laurent Kabila's Minister of State Pierre-Victor Mpoyo as its chief executive...
Like his new-found regional ally and business partner President Laurent-Désiré Kabila Mugabe isn't unduly perturbed by what he regards as a few local difficulties...
Despite Bizimungu's conciliatory noises few had expected a useful meeting between him and the embattled Congo-K President Laurent-Désiré Kabila whose contradictory statements on the summit's last day clouded matters further...
