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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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    First Congo War. The war initially erupted when Congolese president Laurent-Désiré Kabila turned against his former allies from Rwanda and Uganda, who had...
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    Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko, who was replaced by rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila. This conflict, which also involved multiple neighboring countries...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    people and the assassination of President Laurent-Désiré Kabila. The war ended under President Joseph Kabila, who governed the country from 2001 to 2019...
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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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  • 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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  • Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997, Laurent-Désiré Kabila took up residence in the palace. Tragically, on 16 January 2001, Laurent-Désiré Kabila was shot in the chest...
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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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    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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  • orders are no longer awarded. The order is named after President Laurent-Désiré Kabila and Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Both were assassinated while...
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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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    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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  • Alexandre (born 1972), French politician Laurent Castillo (born 1962), French politician Laurent-Désiré Kabila (1939–2001), President of the Democratic...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    flight. The capture of the city strengthened the legitimacy of Laurent-Désiré Kabila, leader of the AFDL, in his victorious advance until the capture...
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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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  • 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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  • Seko presidency, nor during the early part of the presidency of Laurent-Désiré Kabila. In 2000, however, he plunged into politics, joining the Congolese...
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    Congo on 17 May 1997 after Mobutu Sese Seko fled Kinshasa. When Laurent-Désiré Kabila decided to appoint a transitional parliament, in 1999, he decided...
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