Laurent-Désiré Kabila

The Commission's Chairman is Christophe Lutundula (Opposition Politique) a lawyer and experienced politician who was Vice-President of the Haut Conseil de la République-Parlement de Transition until its dissolution by the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in May 1997...

Financial networks threatened The belligerents are in theory subject to an integrated command but military resources are still largely controlled by the Maison Militaire a group of mostly Katangese commanders who were close to Kabila's murdered father President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

Both had been condemned to death by a court-martial for allegedly taking part in the murder of Joseph's father President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in January 2001...

Kyungu is Balubakat as was the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila; he complains that Kabila junior surrounds himself with Manyema people from his mother's area...

Doris Mbenge were sentenced to death in absentia for involvement in the assassination of Joseph's father Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

L'Avenir a newspaper that speaks for Vice-President Abdoulaye Yérodia and the surviving supporters of the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila pointed fingers at Bemba's people; Bemba and Kengo wa Dondo have been at odds since 1998 when Kengo refused to subsidise the MLC which he regarded as hopeless...

Symphorien Maïbwé the Banyamulenge spokesman says there is also resentment among the former Katangese gendarmes mostly based in Angola who played their part in the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's 1997 victory; the authorities fear that Luanda might exploit such discontent to regain its former influence...

Georges Mirindi (implicated in Laurent Kabila's assassination) Col...

Gertler as General Director of International Diamond Industries (IDI) negotiated a similar exclusive marketing deal with MIBA in 2000 under the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila who abrogated it after accusing IDI of breaking its commitments...

The UN seems to have gained influence since the appointment of American-born Swing: he speaks Lingala and is on good terms with President Kabila having helped show him the ropes in January 2001 when Laurent Kabila was killed and Swing was US ambassador to Kinshasa...