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Congo-Kinshasa

Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Date of Birth: 27 November 1939
Place of Birth: Likasi, Congo-K
Died: 18 January 2001


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Fighting rebels at home and abroad

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...


Ending an embargo

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...


The Pinochet factor

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...


The wages of war

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 rebounds

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...


Annan and Africa

It also lacks leverage with Kigali's opponents Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government in Kinshasa; Kabila is still indignant that the UN's welcome for the overthrow of the late Mobutu Sese Seko was confined to demands for an inquiry into human rights abuses during the war against the dictator...


Turning the tide

President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's Angolan allies decided to take no more risks in the air...


Militias and market forces

EO started negotiations with besieged President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in mid-August a development based largely on its good relations with Kabila’s main allies in Luanda...


My Arabism tired me out

Libya’s new interest in Central Africa in some ways suits Paris which still glows at how Congo-Kinshasa’s embattled President Laurent-Désiré Kabila has put US noses out of joint...


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