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    Laurent-Désiré Kabila (French pronunciation: [lo.ʁɑ̃ de.zi.ʁe ka.bi.la]) (27 November 1939 – 16 January 2001) usually known as Laurent Kabila (US: pronunciation)...
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  • Palais de Marbre, Kinshasa Laurent-Désiré Kabila, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was assassinated in his office inside his official...
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    office ten days after the assassination of his father, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in the context of the Second Congo War. He was allowed to remain...
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    his antics did not last long. In May 1997, rebel forces led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila overran the country and forced him into exile. Already suffering...
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    involved some of the same issues. It began when Congolese president Laurent-Désiré Kabila turned against his Rwandan and Ugandan allies who had helped him...
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  • Jaynet Désirée Kabila Kyungu (born 4 June 1971) is the daughter of Laurent-Désiré Kabila, the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo and...
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    replaced Zairean president Mobutu Sese Seko with the rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila. Kabila's unstable government subsequently came into conflict with his...
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  • Jazeera investigative film suggesting that Congolese president Laurent-Désiré Kabila was assassinated in 2001 through the efforts of the Rwandan government...
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  • Aimée Kabila Mulengela (24 July 1976 – 16 January 2008) was the alleged natural daughter of Laurent-Désiré Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic...
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  • marked the beginning of the Second Congo War. Rwanda hoped to depose Laurent-Désiré Kabila and install a government more favorable to Rwanda's interests by...
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    aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and growing ethnic violence. In 1996, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, the head of the AFDL militia, led a popular rebellion against Mobutu...
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    positions of Deputy Minister of Mines and then Minister of Mines in the Laurent-Désiré Kabila government. He was accused of misappropriating funds in June 2000...
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  • of the Congo Laurent-Désiré Kabila, and he is the brother of former President Joseph Kabila and National Assembly Member Jaynet Kabila. Kanila was the...
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  • the National Order of the Leopard. It is named after President Laurent-Désiré Kabila and Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, both of whom were assassinated...
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  • au Mémorial Mzee Laurent Désiré Kabila au Palais de marbre" [Strong enthusiasm of the population at the Mzee Laurent Désiré Kabila Memorial at the Marble...
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    and has held its role since 2001, following the assassination of Laurent-Désiré Kabila. Constructed in 1956 based on Marcel Lambrichs [fr; nl]' design...
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  • French politician Laurent-Désiré Kabila (1939–2001), President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1997 to 2001 Laurent Gbagbo (born 1945),...
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  • convulsions of the Congolese crisis, being founded in 1967 in Fizi by Laurent-Désiré Kabila, who decades later would overthrow Mobutu and take control of the...
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    Laurent-Désiré Kabila to power in the First Congo War. Although the group was successful in overthrowing Mobutu, the alliance fell apart after Kabila...
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  • Zaire, in which Mobutu lost his power during this process. In 1997, Laurent-Désiré Kabila took power and renamed the country the Democratic Republic of the...
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    the failures of the Simba rebellion as a revolutionary redoubt by Laurent-Désiré Kabila with a contingent of a couple thousand men. Although it was completely...
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    Zaire) in the 1990s. In 1997, she was appointed a cabinet minister by Laurent Kabila and then ambassador to Belgium. A bust of Kasa-Vubu's visage was erected...
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  • the First Congo War, Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) and Laurent-Désiré Kabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire...
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    The battle marked the FAZ's inevitable defeat at the hands of Laurent Désiré Kabila's troops, who took Kinshasa in May 1997. Kisangani, in eastern Zaire...
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    invading Zaire, which ended the 32-year rule of Joseph Mobutu and saw Laurent Désiré Kabila becoming the new president. These conflicts originated from the...
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  • Kabila (born 1971), daughter of Laurent-Désiré Kabila Laurent-Désiré Kabila (1939–2001), Joseph's father, the former president of the DRC Zoé Kabila (born...
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    of Congo rebels captured Lubumbashi in April 1997. Rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila spoke from Lubumbashi to declare himself president of the Democratic...
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    had been members of Gizenga's Parti Solidaire Africain (PSA), and Laurent-Désiré Kabila, who had been a member of the Lumumba aligned Association générale...
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    governors of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo Previously named Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; changed name on 10 January 1972 due to the policy of Zairianisation...
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    and Ugandan-backed rebels won the first war (1996–97), installing Laurent-Désiré Kabila as president in place of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and returning...
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