Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

No formal role for Savimbi has been found yet and substantial numbers of UNITA soldiers crossing into Zaïre to avoid the UN-monitored demobilisation now have the added incentive to earn money as mercenaries for Mobutu Sese Seko's ailing government...

This was a stinging blow to President Mobutu Sese Seko's plans for a military fightback...

There is no love lost betwen Museveni and President Mobutu Sese Seko...

President Mobutu Sese Seko was detained elsewhere but everybody in Ouagadougou wanted to know what was happening to his country...

South African ex-soldiers have been recruited to protect the mines around Kolwezi and were reinforced in late November by 1 000 soldiers of President Mobutu Sese Seko's Division Spéciale Présidentielle...

President Mobutu Sese Seko's heralded return home will do little to turn the tide of defeat and demoralisation...

Plans for the intervention force to seize Goma and Bukavu airports from opposition forces led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila and the Banyamulenge rebels seem to have been shelved – and with them President Mobutu Sese Seko's hopes that a military-backed humanitarian mission might help break the opposition hold on Kivu...

While he waited he popped over to Roquebrune-Cap-Martin to see President Mobutu Sese Seko...

In the battle for eastern Zaïre Museveni favours the Banyamulenge rebels and their Rwandan allies; Moi favours the Rwandan former army the Interahamwé militias and their allies in President Mobutu Sese Seko's government...

Analysts on the Quai d'Orsay we hear are being asked two key questions: how can the rebels' grip over Eastern Zaïre be broken (in particular their control of Bukavu and Goma airports) and how can Mobutu Sese Seko's weakness be managed to prevent an implosion in Zaïre and beyond...