Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Much of it is aimed personally at President Joseph Kabila Kabange who has been in power since the murder of his father President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in January 2001...

Katanga Governor Moïse Katumbi Chapwe is the younger and poorer brother of Raphaël Soriano Katebe Katoto who dreamed of the presidency in 2002 after Laurent Kabila’s assassination and now contemplates leaving his exile in a Belgian mansion to return to Congo...

It is widely believed that when CWN was formed in 1998 Kazadi joined to represent the interests of then President Laurent-Désiré Kabila whose part-ownership (like the rest of the family’s business affairs) is controlled by presidential sister Janet Kabila...

Given their long history together in Tanzania and Congo it is likely that Kazadi’s relationship with Laurent Kabila helped CWN land the licence in the first place...

One of the ‘Boys’ (Basagya in Luganda) he thought himself above the rules a talkative extrovert unlike Kayumba or Kagame; he was in charge of recruiting allies in Congo including the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

The 2008 confidential list includes Nkunda's wife Elisabeth Uwasse and Bilal Abdul Kalim Bakizi a Lebanese businessman in Goma whose brother Héritier Bilal is based in Kigali and is suspected by the Congolese government of playing a role in the assassination of the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

Both had belonged to the late President Laurent Kabila's Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre then a rebel movement which brought together Congolese militias Congolese Tutsi and Rwandan soldiers to overthrow the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...

Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi former Vice-President and Foreign Minister under President Laurent Kabila was also a member of Kim’s Kinshasa-based fan club...

North Korea built the monument of former President Laurent-Désiré Kabila that stands before the Place de la République; more recently Korean advisors trained the Congolese military...

After Kinshasa gave Gertler's firm Idi Diamonds a monopoly on buying and exporting diamonds on 31 July 2000 Gertler encouraged the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila to employ an Israeli private company to train his police...

President Joseph Kabila owes a lot to Angola's rulers who helped his late father Laurent-Désiré Kabila to overthrow President Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 then supported him against armed uprisings in 1998-2003...

Angolan troops helped to stabilise Kinshasa after Laurent Kabila was murdered in January 2001 and ensured that Joseph replaced him ten days later...

Two weeks after Evariste Boshab a close ally of President Joseph Kabila was elected Speaker of the National Assembly and the independent-minded Vital Kamerhe had been forced from the Speaker's post minority politicians are complaining about a return to a 'single-party' behaviour reminiscent of Presidents Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent Kabila...