Vol 38 No 25 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 38 No 24 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
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...
Vol 38 No 24 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Eyadèma to some extent modelled himself on the late Mobutu Sese Seko...
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...
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...
A few English-speaking activists in the SDF say they want to imitate Laurent-Désiré Kabila's struggle against Mobutu Sese Seko...
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...
Congo- Kinshasa officials have already visited their Swiss counterparts in search of the fortune of the late Mobutu Sese Seko...