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Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

Date of Birth: 14 October 1930
Place of Birth: Lisala, Congo-K
Died: 7 September 1997


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Brothers at war

The breaking point was Congo-Kinshasa's first civil war a chaotic uprising against the old dictator Mobutu Sese Seko...


Dialogue in Addis

Many Congolese fear a repeat performance of the 1991 National Conference held under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...


Friends abroad, foes at home

With the external forces gone the FLC largely composed of experienced soldiers from the late President Mobutu Sese Seko's Division Spéciale Présidentielle could probably make short work both of Kabila's regular army and of the RCD...


Drive my tractor

This is reminiscent of the late Zaïrean President Mobutu Sese Seko who in 1992 promoted his former arch-enemy Nguza Karl-i-Bond to harass Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba and the Kasaï-Luba from the rear...


The new foreign legion

After the 1994 Rwanda genocide the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 the coup d'etat in Côte d'Ivoire in 1999 French diplomats are regaining influence in Central and West Africa...


The man from uncle

Sakombi who claims to be a born-again Christian and leads a fundamentalist sect says he was Mobutu Sese Seko's Information Minister because 'the Creator President' was a devil who got inside him...


Plots galore

It is alleged that in Europe in late 2000 Kapend met a former captain of Mobutu Sese Seko's Division Spéciale Présidentielle (DSP) Aimé Atenbina and the President of the Société Minière du Congo (Somico) Philémon Naluwindja; they discussed Kabila's decision to nationalise a Canadian-held gold concession in July 1998...


Generals, tontons and kidogos

Dieudonné Kayumbe was trained at Saint-Cyr military academy in France and served in Mobutu Sese Seko's army; he gives up the job of deputy Minister of Reconstruction...


Question of survival

A Lunda from Katanga Kapend was brought up in Angola among the fighters known as the 'Katangese gendarmes' who had fled across the border after the failure of their previous rebellion against the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko...


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