Miners were recruited from Zaïre under an agreement with the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...
In October 1996 after repeated requests to the UN to disband the camps Rwandan and Ugandan troops stormed across the border to do the job themselves – just as Zaïre’s own rebellion against the rule of the dying Mobutu Sese Seko was gathering steam...
Vol 40 No 2 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
In Equateur province soldiers who used to serve in Mobutu Sese Seko’s army have been enlisted by the Mouvement de Libération du Congo a rebel group formed in December which is conducting an offensive with Ugandan help...
At the last elections many southern Chadians mainly Sara and Kaba voted MLPC while many Congolese from Equateur especially from the late Mobutu Sese Seko’s Ngbandi people voted for Kolingba’s RDC...
The Rwanda-Uganda alliance was the motor which chased Mobutu Sese Seko from power in May 1997 and installed Kabila as President...
Transport for the troops and their equipment from Ndjamena to Mobutu Sese Seko's old haunt Gbadolité was provided by Angola...
Vol 39 No 23 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Just 18 months ago these two were collaborating in a whirlwind military campaign to chase the late Mobutu Sese Seko from power...
In the 1980s Chivukuvuku based in Kinshasa (then ruled by the late Mobutu Sese Seko) successfully infiltrated UNITA troops into the jungle of the Cabinda enclave and ran several secret operations involving United States' support for UNITA...
Vol 39 No 22 |
- UNITED NATIONS
It also lacks leverage with Kigali's opponents Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government in Kinshasa; Kabila is still indignant that the UN's welcome for the overthrow of the late Mobutu Sese Seko was confined to demands for an inquiry into human rights abuses during the war against the dictator...
When Sandline asked the Foreign Office about the propriety of helping prop up Mobutu Sese Seko in late 1996 it was emphatically told to keep out of it...