So are relations between Sassou and Congo-Kinshasa's Laurent-DésiréKabila who deeply resented Lissouba's cooperation with sacked dictator Mobutu Sese Seko...
in arrears to the ADB after Mobutu Sese Seko's government stopped most debt-servicing almost a decade ago...
Vol 38 No 12 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
After Mobutu Sese Seko's fall opposition politicians in Africa are looking for more weakening of the old guard as Lionel Jospin's government bends to regional geopolitical changes with the United States and South Africa emerging with bigger roles...
The men wore woolly ski-masks suggesting they were Mobutu Sese Seko's presidential guard on the run...
Vol 38 No 12 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The second problem is money: Mobutu Sese Seko's government literally emptied the central bank before fleeing...
Vol 38 No 11 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
The departure from power of the British Conservative Party (after 18 years) on 2 May and that of Mobutu Sese Seko (after 32 years) on 17 May in different ways mean significant changes for Whitehall's Africa policy...
The tremors running from northern Angola down to Savimbi's central highlands redoubt in Bailundo are the aftershocks of the political earthquake in Central Africa and the flight of his last significant foreign ally Mobutu Sese Seko...
As Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko world leader in the corruption business steals away to safety and a vast fortune the World Bank is worrying about its role as a main provider of stealable funds...
Soldiers from Togo proved useless when sent to fight for Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko (who was a guest of the Presidency in Lomé after his fall)...
Vol 38 No 9 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
However Mobutu Sese Seko is finally chased from the Presidency Zaïre's new rulers will inherit a formal economy that barely exists...