Wed. November 12, 2008
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette
November 12, 2008
... with a difficult group of opposing political figures, including then-President
Mobutu Sese Seko and rebel leader and later President
Laurent Kabila. ...
The Independent
November 12, 2008
... who claims he is fighting to protect the ethnic Tutsis from Hutu Interahamwe
militias supposedly backed by the
Kinshasa regime of
Laurent Kabila. ...
Toronto Star
November 10, 2008
The new president,
Laurent Kabila, changed the country's name to the
Democratic Republic of Congo. But he could not bring order to the broken country. ...
College News
November 10, 2008
In 1997, Mobutu was sent to exile and
Rwanda's Tutsi-backed leader
Laurent Kabila became president of
Congo. But less than a year later, Kabila decided to ...
Business Daily Africa
November 10, 2008
The fragility of peace especially in Eastern DRC has been blamed on the failure by the late Laurent Kabila's government to implement the 1999 Lusaka Accord. ...
Workers World
November 10, 2008
This war (1998-2003) brought in the progressive states of
Angola,
Zimbabwe and
Namibia on the side of the Congolese government of
Laurent Kabila. ...
The Times
November 10, 2008
DRC
soldiers fought fierce battles with
Laurent Nkunda's rebels in North Kivu, in the e ast of the country, as its president,
Laurent Kabila, ...
Harare Tribune
November 8, 2008
At that time in 1998 the first African countries to respond to Laurent Kabila's request for help were fellow members of the Southern African Development ...
Daily Nation
November 8, 2008
Rwanda and
Uganda sent an
army to install a puppet regime, headed by
Laurent Kabila. When they fell out in July 1998, Mr Kabila ordered foreign forces out, ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 7, 2008
To save his regime from Tutsi rebels supported by
Rwanda,
Laurent Kabila received Angolan military help in 1998. Ten years later, his son may be repeating ...
African Press Agency
November 7, 2008
AllAfrica.com
November 6, 2008
The then president of the DRC, Laurent Kabila, sought help from fellow SADC Member States who responded by sending in troops which prevented the rebel ...
Press and Journal
November 5, 2008
In the capital of
Congo,
Kinshasa, government spokesman Lambert Mende said President
Laurent Kabila's administration was "open for dialogue" with all rebels ...
Center for Research on Globalization
November 5, 2008
By January 2001, this "
First World War of
Africa" had killed more than 3 million people,
Laurent Kabila was assassinated and was replaced by his son, ...
Voice of America
November 5, 2008
In other words when Mobutu was in power, Laurent Kabila was coming with his rebels and at that time they asked President Mobutu to talk to Kabila, ...
Socialistworker.co.uk
November 4, 2008
Opposition now shifted to the east and focused on the exiled rebel leader
Laurent Kabila -
Joseph Kabila's father - who claimed a radical past. ...
Daily Mail
November 3, 2008
At the weekend, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and French foreign minister
Bernard Kouchner urged
Congo president
Laurent Kabila and
Rwanda president Paul ...
Independent
November 2, 2008
Mr Kagame supported the Tutsi rebel leader who emerged from the jungle, Laurent Kabila, in his successful drive to topple the Zairean dictator Mobutu sese ...
The Zimbabwean
November 1, 2008
His friend
Laurent Kabila'death inside his own palace is a case in point. His death has never been properly explained.
Zimbabweans will remember the two-day ...
CNN
November 1, 2008
In 1996, dissident groups led by
Laurent Kabila -- and strongly supported by
Rwanda and
Uganda -- rose in revolt. They entered the country's capital of ...
euronews
October 31, 2008
Congolese rebels have agreed to open humanitarian corridors near the besieged city of Goma as tales of rape, looting and murder begin to emerge. ...
Times Online
October 31, 2008
They will press Mr. Kagame and the Congolese president Laurent Kabila to sit down at the same table and negotiate a lasting truce. ...
Radio France Internationale
October 31, 2008
Seattle Times
October 30, 2008
President Joseph Kabila's father,
Laurent Kabila, became president of the country then called
Zaire in May 1997 after toppling the corrupt regime of Mobutu ...
Aljazeera.net
October 28, 2008
Joseph Kabila, son of
Laurent Kabila, a former president who was assassinated in 2001 as the country was on the verge of callapse, was sworn in as president ...
Mail & Guardian Online
October 28, 2008
He piggy-backed on the Zimbabwean military support for
Laurent Kabila when Kabila seized power in the
Democratic Republic of Congo and was granted copper ...
Radio Netherlands
October 28, 2008
In the capital
Kinshasa, DRC President
Laurent Kabila has presented a new government. Its primary objective is to halt the rapid advance of the rebels.
The Times
October 28, 2008
In
Kinshasa, President
Laurent Kabila yesterday named a new government of "combat and reconstruction" in a bid to pacify the giant central African country, ...
Independent Online
October 27, 2008
On Sunday, DRC President Laurent Kabila replaced his defence minister in a government of "combat and reconstruction" in a bid to pacify the east of the ...
Melbourne Herald Sun
October 27, 2008
Yesterday, DRC President Laurent Kabila replaced his defence minister in a government of "combat and reconstruction" in a bid to pacify the east of the ...
Workers World
October 23, 2008
... coalition known as the Alliance of Democratic Forces for Liberation (ADFL) was formed under the leadership of the late former president, Laurent Kabila. ...
Beyond Chron
October 22, 2008
Lack of talent didn't doom Guevara's efforts to form an effective fighting force out of
Laurent Kabila's Congolese rebel
army. Rather, bureaucracy or tribal ...
eTaiwan News
October 19, 2008
... tightened restrictions following the escape of a dozen inmates convicted of involvement in the assassination of former President Laurent Kabila. ...
AllAfrica.com
October 17, 2008
There is no doubt that in 1998 Rwandan and Ugandan forces did indeed try to topple the government of Laurent Kabila, father of the current president, ...
Mail & Guardian Online
October 16, 2008
His team performed despite the rumblings from home, where
Mobutu Sese Seko and
Laurent Kabila were locking eyes and gunsights across a crippled country that ...
Vanguard
October 16, 2008
The ongoing war in
Congo is one of the battles ignited in 1998 when the new government of
Laurent Kabila was swarmed by rebel groups backed by neigbouring ...
AllAfrica.com
October 16, 2008
Laurent Kabila took over the capital from the ailing president
Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 after being holed up in the east for decades, and President Joseph ...
Workers World
October 15, 2008
Kabila-who took power after the assassination of his father, Laurent Kabila, in 2003-was elected as president in a national poll held in 2006. ...
ABC.es
October 14, 2008
... sino que, como hicieran en su día Ruanda y
Uganda, que llevaron en andas a
Laurent Kabila (el padre del actual presidente) hasta el «trono» de
Kinshasa, ...
Reuters South Africa
October 11, 2008
Kabila -- catapulted to power by the January 2001 assassination of his father Laurent Kabila, himself a former eastern rebel leader -- has failed to end ...
