Laurent-Désiré Kabila

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...

The triumph of Laurent-Désiré Kabila's forces in Zaïre has cut off from its usual bases the main armed opposition to his regime...

The CNRK is organised by Laurent Kabila's Bembe opponents; the new alliance will oppose both the Burundi army and Kabila's forces which (its leaders claim) want to 'exterminate the Bantu' meaning Hutu and Bembe...

• By end December Laurent-Désiré Kabila's Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre controlled gold reserves estimated at US$1...

Bank sources link the French position to the Elysée's anger at growing Ugandan and Anglophone influence in Central Africa; specifically the takeover by Kampala's allies Paul Kagame's Front Patriotique Rwandais in Rwanda and now the success of President Yoweri Museveni's ally – Laurent-Désiré Kabila and the Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre - in Zaïre...

President José Eduardo dos Santos is cheering on Laurent-Désiré Kabila's forces and has helped by facilitating the airlift of several battalions of 'Katangese gendarmes' (both serving and former soldiers in the Forças Armadas de Angola) to Bukavu...

The General had heard that FLEC-R was providing support for rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila's forces in Cabinda...

Several 'companions of the road' have given their support to 59 year-old Laurent-Désiré Kabila's political struggle (AC Vol 38 Nos 6 A bend in the river & 7 Kabila's long march)...

This showed the Zaïrean war has not deprived the FDD of their fighting ability; and contrary to their claims Laurent Kabila's rebels hadn't yet taken Moba which seemed still to be in the hands of the Forces Armées Zaïroises on 9 April...