Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

Today he is effusive in his praise of Tshisekedi the old warhorse who has been a thorn in the side of the late Mobutu Sese Seko and both Kabilas...

In life Papa Wemba generally stayed out of politics though his self-proclaimed presidency of the designer label-obsessed Société des ambianceurs et des personnes élégantes (SAPE Society of mood-creators and elegant people) accompanied by his eclectic personal fashion sense was a deliberate and provocative rejection of the drab Mao Zedong-inspired menswear called the abacos which the late President Mobutu Sese Seko insisted upon...

Félix Antoine Tshisekedi son of Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba the octogenarian leader of the opposition Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS) appears to have got the better of President Joseph Kabila just as his father did in 1991 to the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...

Yet Leon Kengo Wa Dondo the wily octogenarian President of the Senate a former Prime Minister under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko and more recently a persistent thorn in Kabila's side has said he believes that Katumbi and Kabila are secretly in league with each other and that the public image of their fall-out is a smokescreen...

To some it seems like a parody of his father's role as Premier alongside the late President Mobutu Sese Seko in the 1990s...

It has been home to deposed dictators before such as Congo-Kinshasa's Mobutu Sese Seko and has the advantage for Compaoré of being outside the African Union and not yet a full signatory to the Rome Statute which underpins the International Criminal Court...

Another Israeli group struck a deal in January 2013 to relaunch the late President Mobutu Sese Seko's Domaine agro-industriel et présidentiel de la N'Sele and produce milk eggs and chickens at that farm...

The problem dates back to the days of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko says a former diplomat and University of Kinshasa Geology Professor Kasongo Numbi Kashemukunda...

Among the detained are some former Mai-Mai militiamen and soldiers of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko's army the Forces armées zaïroises...

From the fall of the autocratic late President Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 onwards South Africa has played a central role in negotiations over Congo's future...