Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

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...

While President Mobutu Sese Seko issues orders from his sickbed in Switzerland his army is routed in Kivu...

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'...

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...

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...

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...

Hutu leaders'suspicions are heightened by French and Belgian sensitivity to Museveni's Hima friends speaking Kiswahili or English not French; President Mobutu Sese Seko also wants to safeguard the French language culture and military protection...

This did not exactly sound like a threat especially since in June Paris had resumed aid to President Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaïre contrary to the policy of the 'Troika': Belgium France and the United States...