Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

Although Kabila enlisted Antoine Gizenga 80 of the Parti Lumumbiste Unifié (Palu) and François Joseph Mobutu Nzanga Ngangawe of the Union des Démocrates Mobutistes (UDEMO) the son of the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko the second election round confirmed the east-west schism established in the first round...

'Among the many highpoints for her work were on behalf of rural women in Angola and Mozambique writing on the evils of the Mobutu Sese Seko regime in Zaïre (now Congo-Kinshasa) and the months she spent living as the only outsider in a small Sudanese community' writes the Africa Faith and Justice Network...

However on 18 September Nzanga (son of the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko) declared that he was backing Kabila after all...

When Bemba returned to Kinshasa at the end of his campaign thousands of his supporters lined the roads shouting angrily and trying to smash up journalists and their vehicles; some were holding posters of the late Mobutu Sese Seko...

They included Vincent de Paul Lunda Bululu (once prime minister under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko) Oscar Kashala (a cancer specialist) Joseph Olenghankoy (formerly minister of public works in the transitional government) and Jonas Mukamba (formerly head of the state mining firm Minière de Bakwanga)...

Lumumbaists Pierre Pay-Pay 60 a former finance minister under the late Mobutu Sese Seko is from Bukavu (South Kivu) and boasts strong support from the Nande of North Kivu...

foreign debt inherited from the Western-backed regime of Mobutu Sese Seko...

Robert Montoya a French former officer and advisor to the late Congo-K President Mobutu Sese Seko runs a private security firm in Lomé...

Chairman of the Front Commun des Nationalistes Gérard Kamanda wa Kamanda (now Minister for Scientific Research previously Foreign Affairs Minister under the late Mobutu Sese Seko) says the constitution has been 'tailor-made' for transitional President Joseph Kabila who is only 33 and for Bemba and Ruberwa ministers who are both under 45...

Three decades after Western governments propped up Cold War ally Mobutu Sese Seko in Kinshasa with loans they knew he was squandering they are still demanding repayment from the successor government...