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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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A bend in the river

The fall of Kindu to the rebels persuaded President Mobutu Sese Seko's government that accepting the Sahnoun plan may be its last chance...


Cape town crisis

President Mobutu Sese Seko and his government may believe that the negotiations in Cape Town with Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre officials are the best chance to stave off more rebel victories...

The war is a convenient excuse for the government to put off this year's elections and an opportunity for spin offs from arms purchases controlled by Premier Kengo wa Dondo and President Mobutu Sese Seko's close ally Seti Ali...


Oil the wheels

Savimbi is particularly close to President Mobutu Sese Seko and King Hassan II...


Outside agents

Less than a week after Kengo ordered a counter offensive (which some supporters of ailing President Mobutu Sese Seko said he had no right to do) the FAZ initial thrust was petering out scuppered by its inability to establish a ground corridor or resupply its troops by air...


Worlds apart

No formal role for Savimbi has been found yet and substantial numbers of UNITA soldiers crossing into Zaïre to avoid the UN-monitored demobilisation now have the added incentive to earn money as mercenaries for Mobutu Sese Seko's ailing government...


Digging in

This was a stinging blow to President Mobutu Sese Seko's plans for a military fightback...


Border brothers

There is no love lost betwen Museveni and President Mobutu Sese Seko...


Low key in Ouaga

President Mobutu Sese Seko was detained elsewhere but everybody in Ouagadougou wanted to know what was happening to his country...


Mining for trouble

South African ex-soldiers have been recruited to protect the mines around Kolwezi and were reinforced in late November by 1 000 soldiers of President Mobutu Sese Seko's Division Spéciale Présidentielle...


A hard homecoming

President Mobutu Sese Seko's heralded return home will do little to turn the tide of defeat and demoralisation...


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