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Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

Date of Birth: 14 October 1930
Place of Birth: Lisala, Congo-K
Died: 7 September 1997


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Hugging the opposition

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...


Copper-bottomed

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


Clinton likes it

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


African roadshow rolls

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...


Patasse´'s problems

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...


More contras

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...


Embarrassing

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...


Big men, big countries, big hopes

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...


Best friends, friends and foes

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...


Franco-phoney war

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...


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