Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Zaïreans contrast Washington's sharp warning to Angola with its failure to censure Uganda or Rwanda for their support for Laurent-Désiré Kabila's rebel forces...

But for AFDL leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila the negotiations – presided over by South Africa's Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and United States Assistant Secretary for Africa George Moose – offer little more than space on the international stage while his forces score more successes...

It was rumoured in Luanda early this month that Numa had been badly injured while fighting alongside the Zaïrean army commanding some 2-3 000 UNITA soldiers against Laurent-Désiré Kabila's rebel forces...

Military sources say that Laurent-Désiré Kabila's Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre (AFDL) have maintained their positions about 300 kilometres east of Kisangani...

Kinshasa claims that these incursions backed by cross-border artillery fire amounted to an invasion in support of Laurent-Désiré Kabila's Zaïrean rebels...

Events namely the military successes of Laurent Kabila's rebels (backed by Rwanda and Uganda) seem set to overtake both policy options...

Mahele argued that to stand firm against Laurent Kabila's Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Kinshasa (AFDL) he must have the power to call all officers to account for insubordination and corruption...

Yet without external help (and as long as Rwanda backs Laurent Kabila's Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Kinshasa AFDL) a Zaïrean counter-attack is unlikely to succeed...

Plans for the intervention force to seize Goma and Bukavu airports from opposition forces led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila and the Banyamulenge rebels seem to have been shelved – and with them President Mobutu Sese Seko's hopes that a military-backed humanitarian mission might help break the opposition hold on Kivu...

Kigali's Minister of Defence and Vice-President Major General Paul Kagamé is condemned by many Francophones as an agent of 'Anglo-Saxon expansionism'; so are Laurent Kabila's forces the Tutsi Banyamulenge rebels and others in the Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Kinshasa...