Laurent-Désiré Kabila

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

This was seen as a payback for Luanda's decisive intervention in Congo on Laurent Kabila's behalf - and as a green light for Luanda to wipe out Savimbi and his armed supporters...

President Laurent-Désiré Kabila has new allies with troops from Chad and it appears Central African Republic now added to those from the Southern African Development Community (Angola Namibia and Zimbabwe) and from Sudan...

Kigali ministers deny any post-factum justification for being in Congo but hint at more military support to come especially if Laurent Kabila attacks in the east...