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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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Dropping Kabila

Washington and London are critical of his diplomatic brinkmanship; older counsels in Paris and Brussels delight in saying 'We told you so' to Anglophone diplomats who had greeted Kabila's arrival and Mobutu Sese Seko's departure in 1997 with some glee...


A losing gamble

Other ALC commanders served in the late Mobutu Sese Seko's Forces Armées Zairoises (FAZ) or Division Spéciale Présidentielle escaped from Kabila's reeducation camps' and have fought the FAC since the lightning attack of August 1998 in Bas-Congo by Rwandan Commandant James Kabarehe...


Bemba's boys

After the MLC was set up Laurent Kabila appointed Bemba's father ex-Mobutu Sese Seko minister Jeannot Bemba Saolona as Economy Minister...


The military-metropolitan team

Jeannou Lacaze Chief of Staff of the French army in the 1980s; he was security advisor to the Zaïrean President Mobutu Sese Seko then to military leaders Gnassingbé Eyadéma in Togo and Idriss Déby in Chad...


Duet for donors

As it did for Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaïrean government in the 1980s the Bank has placed Kenyan technocrats deemed sympathetic to economic reform in key government positions...


Hanging on

Unlike his predecessor Mobutu Sese Seko who assumed foreign troops would bail him out if necessary he has not wilfully neglected his army...


UN-convincing

Beaming notably plump applauded by his Ministers of Foreign Affairs Justice and Information flanked by his American lobbyists and wearing an abacost jacket like those once sported by Mobutu Sese Seko Kabila said all his concerns had been met gleefully but inaccurately claiming that Britain and France had named Rwanda and Uganda as aggressors...


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