Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

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...

Without massive investment the mines may run down as completely as next-door Congo-Kinshasa' s did under ex-President Mobutu Sese Seko...

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...