Laurent-Désiré Kabila

That will make the residual support for him in mineral-rich Katanga – birthplace of his assassinated father President Laurent-Désiré Kabila – all the more important...

Under the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila Munene was Deputy Minister of the Interior; he fled to Congo-Brazzaville where he was arrested in January...

Congo’s President Laurent-Désiré Kabila and Rwanda’s Kagame were then in close alliance; Kabila blocked Garretôn from pursuing his own investigations...

Other ‘crimes against humanity’ included massacres of Hutu refugees by the APR and the forces of the Congolese government of President Laurent Kabila...

They include Gabriel Kyungu wa Kumwanza a former Governor of Katanga who is now chairman of the provincial assembly for leading the persecution of Kasaians in 1993 and a former Foreign Minister under the late Laurent Kabila Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi who stirred up hatred against Tutsi in 1998...

This is uncomfortable for Kabila who in the 2006 election took three-quarters of the province’s vote and whose father the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila was born in Katanga (Joseph is said to have been born in a rebel camp in South Kivu)...

Then a further moral twist: After rebel forces led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila chased Mobutu from power in 1997 his finance minister Mawampanga Mwana Nanga was told by the IMF and the Bank that acceptance of the Mobutu loans as legitimate debt was key to re-establishing Congo-Kinshasa as a responsible member of the international financial system...

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...