Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

Two weeks after Evariste Boshab a close ally of President Joseph Kabila was elected Speaker of the National Assembly and the independent-minded Vital Kamerhe had been forced from the Speaker's post minority politicians are complaining about a return to a 'single-party' behaviour reminiscent of Presidents Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent Kabila...

Some see a return to the 'single-party' behaviour familiar under the late Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

Kinshasa has won promises of substantive and rapid relief on some US$11 billion of debt owed to the Bank and the Fund which dates back to the rule of the West's Cold War ally President Mobutu Sese Seko (1965-1997)...

foreign debt consists of political loans from the Fund and the Bank made in the 1970s and 1980s to the kleptocratic regime of Mobutu Sese Seko...

foreign debt accumulated under kleptocratic leader Mobutu Sese Seko who was chased from power in 1997...

Several AMP names are doing the rounds including that of Evariste Mabi Mulumba once Mobutu Sese Seko's Prime Minister then President of the Cour des Comptes and a late convert to Kabila's side...

Tullow has contacted Agriculture Minister Nzanga Mobutu son of the late Mobutu Sese Seko proposing that given proven 'exploration-production capacity' they could pay a larger signature bonus and a new partner could take 15% of the deal...

Both countries have seemingly insurmountable tasks of identifying billions of dollars in loans dating to the regimes of former Presidents Samuel Doe and Mobutu Sese Seko...

Incumbent President Joseph Kabila is the son of his assassinated predecessor Laurent Désirée Kabila and the political scene in Kinshasa is peppered with the offspring of the late Mobutu Sese Seko many aspiring to high office...

After the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 the United States' civil engineering giant Bechtel made a proposal to the then President Laurent-Désiré Kabila for a reconstruction plan...