Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Some see a return to the 'single-party' behaviour familiar under the late Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

It was when he was Foreign Minister in Laurent Désiré Kabila's government (1998-2001) that Pyongyang became interested in the uranium discovered in Katanga...

George Forrest headed the state-owned Gécamines under President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in the late 1990s and is a friend of European Development Commissioner Louis Michel...

The Forum also claims that Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila (1997-2001) was assassinated on orders from Rwandan President Paul Kagame to preempt a rapprochement with China...

But the President kept several crucial aspects of government out of the Prime Minister's hands: defence security and control of the Central Bank which were placed under a Kabila loyalist Jean-Claude Masangu who had been appointed by Kabila's father Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

An official of the UN Mission in Congo (Monuc) had told Séraphin Mirindi of Nkunda's team that he was under arrest on suspicion of involvement in the murder of the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in January 2001...

After the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 the United States' civil engineering giant Bechtel made a proposal to the then President Laurent-Désiré Kabila for a reconstruction plan...

A long-time collaborator of Mobutu Sese-Seko and both Kabila and his father former President Laurent-Désiré Kabila Forrest is involved in several mining partnerships in Katanga with Congo’s state company Gécamines...

• After the assassination of Laurent Kabila Katumba became Joseph Kabila's Minister of State in the President's Office in charge of state enterprises a key post for funding Operation Sovereign Legacy...