Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

Exercising power from the late President Mobutu Sese Seko to the Kabila dynasty has relied on access to secret untraceable funds to reward supporters buy elections and run vast patronage networks...

In the days of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko Tshisekedi could get a million followers on to the streets of the capital...

Elected to Parliament in 1980 he opposed the late President Mobutu Sese Seko’s regime alongside Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba veteran leader of the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS)...

There are obvious parallels between the current war and the rebellions of 1996 and 1998: the first led to the ousting of President Mobutu Sese Seko within a year; the second led to a succession of political crises resulting in the assassination of Mobutu’s successor Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

In Kinshasa people in Gombe district sing religious anthems and change the words to include phrases such as ‘Lord kill Kabila as you killed his father’ and jump on cars singing the ‘Zaïroise’ the national anthem of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko’s era...

Foreign Affairs International Cooperation and Francophonie go to Raymond Tshibanda N’Tungamulongo the former Cooperation Minister: he is a Muluba from Kasaï-Oriental who worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and served under President Mobutu Sese Seko...

The Tajideens came to Congo in 1997 when the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila toppled Mobutu Sese Seko...

Regardless of government protests to the contrary the law raises for some the spectre of the ‘Zaïrianisation’ of 1973 when President Mobutu Sese Seko transferred the ownership of foreign concerns not only in agriculture to friends relations and other people of influence...

That is the anniversary of the 1992 march against the late President Mobutu Sese Seko when 30 people died...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso won’t allow the extradition recalling the fate of a rebel Pierre Mulele whom he returned to the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in 1968: Mobutu executed him...