Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Now that alliance has been badly holed: Eritrea and Ethiopia are at war; Uganda Rwanda and Angola have lost faith in their protégé Laurent Kabila; South Africa has become more engrossed in its internal problems including that of the crashing rand a year before general elections...

Moi also blames Museveni for masterminding the overthrow of another old friend Zaïrean President Mobutu Sese Seko and has publicly slammed Kagame and President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

President Laurent Kabila's government has narrowly escaped condemnation by the ACP- EU Joint Assembly which met in Mauritius on 21-24 April...

Also invited is Congo-Kinshsa's mercurial President Laurent-Désiré Kabila but Washington is less confident about his attendance...

Together with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Congo-K President Laurent-Désiré Kabila and the Rwandan Vice-President and Defence Minister General Paul Kagame are the key figures in Central Africa's new balance of power...

On the Congo side of the frontier Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government is still far from from consolidating its military position...

Africa Confidential understands that at the height of Laurent Kabila's war against Mobutu President Déby with Elysée encouragement sent arms supplied by Libya and Chinese-made weapons from Sudan to Mobutistes...

On 11-12 February in Harare the OAU's Central Organ (‘security council') will consider the 1994 Rwandan genocide the consequent Hutu refugee crisis in Zaïre and the killings during Laurent Kabila's overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko...