Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

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...

In early November it signed a partnership agreement with Kinshasa’s Minister of Agriculture François Joseph Nzanga Mobutu son of former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko...

When the waters receded Congolese fishing communities settled there and persuaded police to guard them giving Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaire a de facto claim to it...

• Kasongo's father was a senior official at the Banque Commercial du Congo during the rule of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...

This makes the veteran politician - Premier under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko - constitutional number two...

Many Congolese and diplomats reckon that the new regime is establishing absolute authority with as little regard for human rights as the previous regimes of Laurent-Désiré Kabila and Mobutu Sese Seko...

A speedy substantial international response will be needed to avert national schisms like those that erupted after the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko's regime in Zaïre in May 1997...

2010 would take Mugabe's rule up to 30 years – from whence he would be competing with a select few of Africa's longest-serving despots for instance Mobutu Sese Seko who was in power for 32 years (1965-1997)...