Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

Thrown together are men of Mobutu Sese Seko's former army Rwandan Hutu ex-soldiers and militiamen three groups of Sudan-backed Ugandan insurgents Burundian Hutu of the extremist Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie and Congolese Interahamwé militias from the Hunde and Nyanga ethnic groups...

In Katanga the people seem likely to unite behind Kabila especially against the Banyamulenge and the ‘dragons' of Mobutu Sese Seko's former Division Spéciale Presidentielle who led the capture of Kalémie...

Morale at the garrison was poor — many of the soldiers had fought with Mobutu Sese Seko's army and had been subjected to ‘re-education' on Kabila's orders...

They have been enhanced by the addition of a contingent of Rwandan Interahamwé fighters the late President Mobutu Sese Seko's ex-Division Spéciale Présidentielle and supporters of ousted Congo-Brazzaville President Pascal Lissouba...

As a new rebellion from the east gets under way in Congo- Kinshasa more questions are being asked about the role of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the 1996-97 conflict - specifically the UN agency's financing of supply flights to Mobutu Sese Seko's forces in eastern Zaïre after the outbreak of the civil war in September 1996...

Several African heads of state including Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma Gabon's Omar Bongo and the late Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre have included marabouts in their retinue...

Having been cheated out of the premiership several times by Mobutu Sese Seko Tshisekedi doesn't want a repetition with his successor...

A year ago as Mobutu Sese Seko was being chased from power by a coalition of allied governments and rebel movements Africa Confidential (Vol 38 No 10) highlighted the importance of this new cross-border alliance...

Eritrea and Ethiopia had been practical supporters (along with Rwanda and Uganda) of tearing up the OAU's doctrine of non-intervention in sovereign states' affairs; they joined the alliance to unseat Mobutu Sese Seko and are prime movers in the alliance to overthrow Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's National Islamic Front government in Sudan (whose titular head Gen...

Moi also blames Museveni for masterminding the overthrow of another old friend Zaïrean President Mobutu Sese Seko and has publicly slammed Kagame and President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...