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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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And across the river

So are relations between Sassou and Congo-Kinshasa's Laurent-DésiréKabila who deeply resented Lissouba's cooperation with sacked dictator Mobutu Sese Seko...


Nouveaux venus

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...


Congo guns

The men wore woolly ski-masks suggesting they were Mobutu Sese Seko's presidential guard on the run...


Hanging on

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


New arrivals – north and south

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...


Regional rebound

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...


Hitting the thieves

As Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko world leader in the corruption business steals away to safety and a vast fortune the World Bank is worrying about its role as a main provider of stealable funds...


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Guides together

Soldiers from Togo proved useless when sent to fight for Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko (who was a guest of the Presidency in Lomé after his fall)...


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