Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

The IMF and the World Bank under pressure from Britain Belgium France and the United States lent billions of dollars to President Mobutu Sese Seko’s regime in the 1980s when by most independent assessments there was little chance of the money being used for the intended reforms and developments...

That prospect upsets Labour Minister François-Joseph Nzanga Mobutu Ngbangawe (son of the late Joseph Mobutu Sese Seko) while the trades unions complain that the company has failed to produce the financial statements needed to justify the cuts...

The consolation for Kabila may be that none of these mini-rebellions can by themselves immediately threaten his grip on Kinshasa but that could quickly change as the arch-manipulator Mobutu Sese Seko found out in 1996...

The gang may have been joined by ex-soldiers of Jean-Marie Bemba’s Mouvement de Libération du Congo or even of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko’s Division Spéciale...

That could be a mistake by Kabila and his coalition allies Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito of the Parti Lumumbiste Unifié and Deputy Premier François-Joseph Nzanga Mobutu Ngbangawe of the Union des Démocrates Mobutistes and a son of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...

Both had belonged to the late President Laurent Kabila's Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre then a rebel movement which brought together Congolese militias Congolese Tutsi and Rwandan soldiers to overthrow the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...

Kinshasa has enjoyed a long relationship with Pyongyang; in 1975 President Mobutu Sese Seko handed over the training to North Korean troops of his redoubtable Kamanyola Division...

He was the late President Mobutu Sese Seko’s Special Advisor on Security and lives outside Paris...

President Joseph Kabila owes a lot to Angola's rulers who helped his late father Laurent-Désiré Kabila to overthrow President Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 then supported him against armed uprisings in 1998-2003...

For many Congolese this suggests a return to the pattern set by Mobutu Sese Seko...