Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Zimbabwe which was an important backer of both President Laurent-Désiré Kabila and his son Joseph was too embroiled in its post-election crisis to play much of a role although President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo were closely involved in Zimbabwe's military intervention in Congo-K from 1998 to 2002...

The ADF which has been based in North Kivu since the 1990s was once in alliance with Nyamwisi's late brother Enoch Nyamwisi as well as with Laurent Kabila's regime...

Shortly before that on 10 January Gabon's security services arrested General Faustin Munene Chief of Staff of the Congolese army under Laurent Kabila who also served in the Angolan armed forces and married a niece of former President José Eduardo dos Santos...

' Kabila's divide-and-rule tactics are inviting comparisons with the late President Mobutu Seso Seko who introduced multiparty politics in 1990 and promised democratic elections but spent years pitching his opponents against each other and clinging to power before being toppled by Laurent-Désiré Kabila's rebel army in 1997...

As Mobutu's rule approached its end in 1997 Goetz went into business with future President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's Alliance des forces démocratiques pour la libération du Congo-Zaïre agreeing a 1...

For Gertler who arrived in Kinshasa in 1997 aged 23 just after rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila had marched across the country to take the city the usual rules have never applied...

His replacement in the cabinet is Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary a former Governor of Maniema under the regime of Kabila's late father Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

In the meantime however Kinshasa's central road the Boulevard du 30 Juin had been festooned with banners proclaiming the national dialogue calling it a 'Congolese tradition' and invoking the apparently sacred name of the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

Beyond that the very idea of splitting Katanga into four – the rich Lualaba (Kolwezi) and Upper Katanga (Lubumbashi) provinces and the poorer Tanganyika (Kalemie) and Upper Lomami (Kamina) – is extremely unpopular in North Katanga where Kabila's late father President Laurent-Désiré Kabila was born and where Mai-Mai activity is widespread...