While he waited he popped over to Roquebrune-Cap-Martin to see President Mobutu Sese Seko...
In the battle for eastern Zaïre Museveni favours the Banyamulenge rebels and their Rwandan allies; Moi favours the Rwandan former army the Interahamwé militias and their allies in President Mobutu Sese Seko's government...
Vol 37 No 23 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Analysts on the Quai d'Orsay we hear are being asked two key questions: how can the rebels' grip over Eastern Zaïre be broken (in particular their control of Bukavu and Goma airports) and how can Mobutu Sese Seko's weakness be managed to prevent an implosion in Zaïre and beyond...
Vol 37 No 22 |
- GREAT LAKES
While President Mobutu Sese Seko issues orders from his sickbed in Switzerland his army is routed in Kivu...
Vol 37 No 22 |
- GREAT LAKES
Bolozi Gbudu Tankipama brother-in-law of Mobutu Sese Seko: this military intelligence unit has lost much of its capacity; strength reduced to a ‘few thousand'...
Vol 37 No 20 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The Prime Minister Léon Lobitsch Kengo wa Dondo said last month that President Mobutu Sese Seko would come home from Switzerland in October to start work again after his operation for prostate cancer on 22 August (AC Vol 37 No 19)...
Fears are also growing of fighting in Zaïre if President Mobutu Sese Seko' s authority collapses...
Vol 37 No 19 |
- HUMAN RIGHTS
Once President Mobutu Sese Seko had been identified as 'the only man who could keep Zaïre and even central Africa together' he was allowed to reign unhindered...
Vol 37 No 19 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Desperately thin and recovering uncertainly from his operation for cancer of the prostate on 22 August President Mobutu Sese Seko is worrying his friends in Paris and Washington...
Many officers disapproved of Bagaza; as President in 1976-87 he persecuted the Catholic Church and antagonised President Mobutu Sese Seko...