Vol 51 No 11 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 51 No 9 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 51 No 5 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 50 No 25 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 50 No 20 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
For many Congolese this suggests a return to the pattern set by Mobutu Sese Seko...
This it is said would enable party enforcers to know who voted for whom an electoral technique widely used in Burundi in the past and also in the late President Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaïre...