Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Much depends on whether President Laurent-Désiré Kabila whose control over the government's military and security still seems shaky can consolidate...

There may also be direct rewards for President Yoweri Museveni's support for Laurent Kabila: secret negotiations on the 'war debt' began at the end of June between Uganda's Vice-President Foreign Minister and former security chief Eriya Kategaya and the Democratic Republic of Congo's Foreign Minister Bizima Karaha...

Védrine is unlikely to give much higher priority to Africa than his predecessor Hervé de Charette although the arrival of Laurent-Désiré Kabila in Congo-Kinshasa will keep Védrine's eye on the region...

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...