In the 1980s Chivukuvuku based in Kinshasa (then ruled by the late Mobutu Sese Seko) successfully infiltrated UNITA troops into the jungle of the Cabinda enclave and ran several secret operations involving United States' support for UNITA...
Vol 39 No 22 |
- UNITED NATIONS
It also lacks leverage with Kigali's opponents Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government in Kinshasa; Kabila is still indignant that the UN's welcome for the overthrow of the late Mobutu Sese Seko was confined to demands for an inquiry into human rights abuses during the war against the dictator...
When Sandline asked the Foreign Office about the propriety of helping prop up Mobutu Sese Seko in late 1996 it was emphatically told to keep out of it...
Vol 39 No 20 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 39 No 18 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 39 No 17 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 39 No 16 |
- UNITED NATIONS
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...
Vol 39 No 14 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Having been cheated out of the premiership several times by Mobutu Sese Seko Tshisekedi doesn't want a repetition with his successor...