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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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Brazzaville breakdown

Its forces with the Cobra political militia and their foreign allies ­ troops from Angola and Chad exiled former soldiers of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko's army from Congo-Kinshasa and members of the notorious Rwandan Hutu Interahamwé militia ­ crushed the Cocoye rebels who backed the exiled former President Pascal Lissouba killing civilians particularly young men of fighting age...


Peace dividend

for development having battled with South Africa's giant Anglo American since the ousting of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997...


Peace or bust

Another upset came on 16 November with the return to the capital of Léon Kengo wa Dondo former Prime Minister under the old dictator Mobutu Sese Seko after seven years in exile...


Le grand retour

The Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief granted to Congo in July should eventually wipe off more than 80 per cent of the $14 billion foreign debt (most of it lent to and squandered by former leader Mobutu Sese Seko to keep him in the Western fold)...


Rabat's regional security web

Rabat gave sanctuary to the late Congo-Kinshasa President Mobutu Sese Seko but is maintaining close security ties with President Joseph Kabila (AC Vol 44 No 17)...


Not welcome

Having arrested the former head of late President Mobutu Sese Seko's feared Garde Civile General Kpama Baramoto Kata Belgium can't find a country willing to take him...


Ties that bind

Having given sanctuary to late President Mobutu Sese Seko Morocco is maintaining close ties with Joseph Kabila some of whose intelligence and close protection agents are being trained by Moroccan security...


The nearly government

Mining goes to Eugène Diomi Ndongala from Bas-Congo a civilian opposition figure allied to the government who was a deputy Finance Minister under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...


Nobody's moving

Tshisekedi the protesters' preferred candidate is a cantankerous opposition veteran who has strongly opposed the Mobutu Sese Seko and Kabila regimes but has bizarrely allied himself with the Rwandan-based RCD-Goma...


Deeper and deeper

Pretoria has been involved in Great Lakes politics since 1996 when it tried and failed to broker a settlement between Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko and his eventual successor Laurent-Desiré Kabila...


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