Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

And after nine months in power Kabila's government gets only marginally more aid than Mobutu Sese Seko's regime in its final years...

Highly regarded Washington Africanists Howard Wolpe and Gayle Smith led the advance team to organise the Kampala summit; it aims to build on Secretary Albright' s December visit and launch a multi-lateral Central African strategy to fill the much-criticised international policy vacuum following the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko last May...

Kolingba's backers include admirers of the late Mobutu Sese Seko among them the extremely rich Jean Seti Yale several hundred of whose vehicles were seized by Demafouth Mafoutapa's men when he tried to get them out of Zaïre at the moment of defeat...

As French troops prepare to leave on 6 April several hundred of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko's Division Spéciale Présidentielle have joined forces with CAR ex-President André Kolingba...

On 11-12 February in Harare the OAU's Central Organ (‘security council') will consider the 1994 Rwandan genocide the consequent Hutu refugee crisis in Zaïre and the killings during Laurent Kabila's overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko...

While he doesn't face a regional alliance against him of the sort that ousted Mobutu Sese Seko regional governments view his military regime with a mixture of frustration and alarm; they (including new friends such as Ghana's President Jerry Rawlings and Liberia's Charles Taylor) regard its project to oust Koroma as perverse costly and likely to end in fiasco...

The project to reconstruct Central Africa is moving painfully slowly and with very little money over six months after the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko's regime spurred hopes of a revitalised Congo...

The decline of the old Francophonie was symbolised this year by the death of the old Gaullist manipulator Jacques Foccart marked by the collapse of Mobutu Sese Seko's regime in what used to be Zaïre and continued at the Francophone summit in Hanoi on 14-16 November...

Mawampanga says that other banks were linked to Mobutu Sese Seko's regime and more competition was needed...

Now with his ally Laurent-Désiré Kabila in charge of what was Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaïre and English-speaking businessmen making fortunes there Uganda looks like the entry point for the emerging markets of the Great Lakes region...