biography
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Kabila, Laurent-Desiré
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| male
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| lived:
| (1939–2001)
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| biography:
| President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997–2001), born in Kalemi (Shaba Province), E Congo (formerly Zaire, and earlier, Belgian Congo). Educated in France, he was a guerrilla fighter against the Mobutu regime for three decades, receiving support from the Eastern bloc and hosting, for a short time in the 1960s, Ché Guevara. Following his succession to the presidency, he banned all political parties. He was assassinated by one of his bodyguards |
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