Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

President Mobutu Sese Seko – and the two Kabilas who followed him as president – saw the Kasaï provinces as a significant political threat...

23 years of mining Congo for profit Dan Gertler has been the subject of growing controversy since he first arrived in Congo-Kinshasa in 1997 just after Laurent-Désiré Kabila's rebel forces ended the 32-year dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko (AC Vol 38 No 9 Business at war)...

If this allegation against Tshisekedi is true and if true too that the new President has already begun to steal public money that renders Tshisekedi's public stance against corruption an act of cynicism suggesting that the deep system in government of 'Article 15' or 'débrouillez-vous' (sort yourself out) proposed and championed by former President Mobutu Sese Seko and lovingly nurtured by the Kabilas remains alive and well...

Ilukamba served as a minister under the former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and had run the struggling national railway company since 2014 away from the cut and thrust of mainstream power politics...

CENCO played a prominent part in opposition politics; the church joined the peace marches of 1992 which began the process of toppling the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and in the protests last year against the postponement of elections which were put down with much loss of life...

He also surprised Gbadolite the hometown of Mobutu Sese Seko by holding a minute's silence to the memory of the long-serving dictator who was ousted by Kabila's father in 1997...

First it entrenches the old 1996-2003 wartime network that formed Laurent-Desiré Kabila's Rwandan-backed Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo (AFDL) that deposed President Mobutu Sese Seko...

Goetz first came to the Great Lakes region in the 1980s and by 1994 had secured a near monopoly on gold in Zaire then ruled by Mobutu Sese Seko with his Bujumbura-based refinery – Affimet now defunct – producing several tonnes a year...

Key among the AA64 leadership we hear is Deogratias Bugera the former number two in the late Laurent-Desiré Kabila's Alliance des Forces Démocratique pour la Libération du Congo-Zaire (AFDL) the force that deposed President Mobutu Sese Seko (AC Vol 51 No 2 Two generals fail to make peace)...

He previously worked in the US government's regional security office in Kinshasa during the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko...