Laurent-Désiré Kabila

The Papal representative recently spoke in favour of peaceful reform while Kibaki hailed Laurent-Désiré Kabila's victory in Congo- Kinshasa...

For the 90 per cent of the population outside Kinshasa it was another confirmation that while President Laurent-Désiré Kabila and his soldiers had put Mobutu Sese Seko to flight they had no plans to replace dictatorship by broad-based democracy...

Stabilco first made contact with the Zaïrean military early last December when Laurent-Désiré Kabila's rebels were advancing on the Bunia goldfields north-eastern Zaïre...

Major shareholders including South Africa the United States and Britain called for the Bank to help reconstruction in the Democratic Republic of Congo if Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government commits itself to political and economic reform...

After his triumphal debut at the Organisation of African Unity summit (2-4 June) in Harare Laurent-Désiré Kabila returned to Kinshasa and a sea of problems...

If relations remain good with Laurent-Désiré Kabila's new government in République Démocratique du Congo full use will be made of Britain's impressive Kinshasa embassy commissioned during a spate of optimism in the 1980s...

The rise of Laurent-Désiré Kabila's new République Démocratique du Congo from the ashes of Mobutu's Zaïre leaves Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Totalde Angola (UNITA) in its weakest position in a decade...

Zaïre has a new name République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) a new strongman Laurent-Désiré Kabila and a new burst of goodwill from most of the world's capitals with the possible exception of Paris whose adage 'Mobutu or chaos' was overtaken by the reality of 'Mobutu and chaos'...

Yet the atrocities meted out to Rwandan refugees and to Zaïreans in the east signal weakness and malevolence in Laurent-Désiré Kabila's alliance and reflect the regional roots of its spectacular military success in the past seven months...