Laurent-Désiré Kabila

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...

As they go from victory to victory Laurent-Désiré Kabila and his forces are having to face some tough political questions: firstly about the composition of their Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre (AFDL-CZ) and its ability to sustain its popular support; secondly about their relations with the civilian opposition in Zaïre which have remained ambiguous...

They are: • President and Chief of General Staff: Laurent-Désiré Kabila (a Mulubakat from Ankoro northern Shaba) founded the Parti de la Révolution Populaire in 1967...