Article: CONGOLESE QUESTION PROMISES NEW LEADER WEATHERS POST-MOBUTU MONTHS.(News/National/International)

Article: Kabila, Joseph
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Joseph Kabila Joseph Kabila (born 1971) became the president of the Congo in 2001 when he was ... years old. He was put into the position after his father, Laurent Kabila, president at the time, was assassinated. Striving to end the atrocities ...

Article: Kabila's son takes over as interim head of ...
The Washington Times;  January 18, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Cabinet officials thrust President Laurent Kabila's son into power yesterday, making ... African nation a day after the senior Kabila was reportedly killed in a palace attack. Reports that Mr. Kabila had died continued to mount. Congolese ...

Article: Kabila faced constant conflict
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 21, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Kabila faced constant conflict Leader at fringes ... slain Congolese President Laurent Desire Kabila, death was never far behind. When he toppled ... power in the country he renamed Congo, Kabila was hailed as a new hope for a forlorn nation ...

Article: Kabila Son Called Trustworthy; Congolese Leaders Offer ...
The Washington Post;  January 21, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... installed the son of slain president Laurent Kabila as Congo's new leader today offered ... sudden ascension of 31-year-old Joseph Kabila as president. "We had to make a choice ... trust, and that is when the name Joseph Kabila came up." The younger Kabila will be ...

Article: Where Kabila went wrong
New African;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Throughout his career, Laurent Kabila had been at the mercy of unpredictable ... down his neck. Alan Rake looks back on Kabila's life. It was a sudden and violent ... charge of his own destiny. Few think that Kabila's assassination was just the random ...

Article: Kabila's Funeral Melds Past and Future; Congolese Hope His ...
The Washington Post;  January 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... today -- this nation's slain president, Laurent Kabila. One by one, Kabila's allies in Congo's 2 1/2-year-old civil ... thousands of people who paid their final respects to Kabila today, one week after he was fatally shot in his ...

Article: KABILA FATE STILL UNCERTAIN
United Press International;  January 18, 2001 ;     700 words ... ... United Press International 01-18-2001 Kabila fate still uncertain KINSHASA, Congo ... reports of the death of President Laurent Kabila, insisting that his son's appointment ... successor in place before acknowledging that Kabila died Tuesday in a gun battle at the presidential ...