Laurent-Désiré Kabila

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...

Yet Kenya has long openly flouted the embargo along with Zambia and Rwanda while President Laurent-Désiré Kabila exempted Congo- Kinshasa when he himself seized power in May 1997...

Congo-Kinshasa President Laurent-Désiré Kabila was the first African leader to feel the effects of Britain's landmark ruling that Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet no longer enjoyed immunity for murders kidnap and torture committed under his regime...

Kinshasa's Foreign Minister Jean-Charles Okoto told Pretoria's Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo on 17 November that President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government would never meet the rebel Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie as it saw it as a mere front for external aggression by Rwanda and Uganda...

Even a tacit agreement about political cooperation between Tshisekedi and the RCD would swell the rebels' political base enormously and effectively turn Laurent Kabila's forces (and their allies) in Mbuji Mayi into an army of occupation...

Bongo is also being marginalised by the growing assertiveness of President José Eduardo dos Santos' government in Angola whose military might and economic power have been critical in propping up Laurent Kabila's beleaguered Kinshasa regime...