Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

Many close observers disagree with the view that Mobutu Sese Seko's overthrow was a definitive African reverse for France to the benefit of South Africa and the USA...

Comparisons between Moi's Kenya and Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaïre are an opposition rallying cry...

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...

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...

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...

The second problem is money: Mobutu Sese Seko's government literally emptied the central bank before fleeing...

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...