Comparisons between Moi's Kenya and Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaïre are an opposition rallying cry...
Vol 38 No 14 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
For the 90 per cent of the population outside Kinshasa it was another confirmation that while President Laurent-Désiré Kabila and his soldiers had put Mobutu Sese Seko to flight they had no plans to replace dictatorship by broad-based democracy...
Vol 38 No 13 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
As the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko tottered to its end his generals were negotiating a rescue package with former South African military men...
So are relations between Sassou and Congo-Kinshasa's Laurent-DésiréKabila who deeply resented Lissouba's cooperation with sacked dictator Mobutu Sese Seko...
in arrears to the ADB after Mobutu Sese Seko's government stopped most debt-servicing almost a decade ago...
Vol 38 No 12 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
After Mobutu Sese Seko's fall opposition politicians in Africa are looking for more weakening of the old guard as Lionel Jospin's government bends to regional geopolitical changes with the United States and South Africa emerging with bigger roles...
The men wore woolly ski-masks suggesting they were Mobutu Sese Seko's presidential guard on the run...
Vol 38 No 12 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The second problem is money: Mobutu Sese Seko's government literally emptied the central bank before fleeing...
Vol 38 No 11 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
The departure from power of the British Conservative Party (after 18 years) on 2 May and that of Mobutu Sese Seko (after 32 years) on 17 May in different ways mean significant changes for Whitehall's Africa policy...
The tremors running from northern Angola down to Savimbi's central highlands redoubt in Bailundo are the aftershocks of the political earthquake in Central Africa and the flight of his last significant foreign ally Mobutu Sese Seko...