Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

In Mbuji-Mayi the capital of Western Kasaï and of small-scale diamond mining the new Congolese franc notes are not accepted: people still use the old Zaïre notes from Mobutu Sese Seko’s time (AC Vol 39 No 23)...

Also in the scrum to lobby for Bongo was Jean-Marie Coulbary a Senegalese confidant of the late Mobutu Sese Seko...

The next sign of unwillingness to negotiate came on 10 March when the Minister of Justice Mwenze Nkongolo confirmed in his office just five days earlier called for progress in prosecuting former high officials of the Mobutu Sese Seko regime whom he accused of economic and political crimes...

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...

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...

Just 18 months ago these two were collaborating in a whirlwind military campaign to chase the late Mobutu Sese Seko from power...