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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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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...


Kabila's banker

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


The border war

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...


    Vol 38 No 23 |
  • TOGO

Mini-Mobutu okay?

Eyadèma to some extent modelled himself on the late Mobutu Sese Seko...


Regional circle

The summit boosted Angola's image as regional kingpin following its key military roles in the usurping of ex- Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko and Congo- Brazzaville's Pascal Lissouba this year although João de Matos Chief of General Staff of the Forças Armadas Angolanas is the tactical brains behind the plan...


A dictator returns

Paul Kagamé's Front Patriotique Rwandais; Uganda Rwanda and Angola's backing of Laurent-Désiré Kabila's forces against Mobutu Sese Seko and now Angola's backing of Sassou's forces against Lissouba...


Biya's bad joke

A few English-speaking activists in the SDF say they want to imitate Laurent-Désiré Kabila's struggle against Mobutu Sese Seko...


French leave

These men belonged to the Akazu units said to have started Rwanda's genocide in 1994; until the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko they were based at his home-village of Gbadolité...


    Vol 38 No 20 |
  • MALI

Ill-gotten gains

Congo- Kinshasa officials have already visited their Swiss counterparts in search of the fortune of the late Mobutu Sese Seko...


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