Vol 38 No 5 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Savimbi is particularly close to President Mobutu Sese Seko and King Hassan II...
Vol 38 No 3 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
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...
Vol 38 No 1 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
This was a stinging blow to President Mobutu Sese Seko's plans for a military fightback...
There is no love lost betwen Museveni and President Mobutu Sese Seko...
Vol 37 No 25 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
President Mobutu Sese Seko was detained elsewhere but everybody in Ouagadougou wanted to know what was happening to his country...
Vol 37 No 25 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 37 No 24 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Mobutu Sese Seko's heralded return home will do little to turn the tide of defeat and demoralisation...
Vol 37 No 24 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Plans for the intervention force to seize Goma and Bukavu airports from opposition forces led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila and the Banyamulenge rebels seem to have been shelved – and with them President Mobutu Sese Seko's hopes that a military-backed humanitarian mission might help break the opposition hold on Kivu...