Laurent-Désiré Kabila

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...

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...