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Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

Date of Birth: 14 October 1930
Place of Birth: Lisala, Congo-K
Died: 7 September 1997


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The fire this time

In October 1996 after repeated requests to the UN to disband the camps Rwandan and Ugandan troops stormed across the border to do the job themselves – just as Zaïre’s own rebellion against the rule of the dying Mobutu Sese Seko was gathering steam...


Central Africa's schism

In Equateur province soldiers who used to serve in Mobutu Sese Seko’s army have been enlisted by the Mouvement de Libération du Congo a rebel group formed in December which is conducting an offensive with Ugandan help...


Dubious democracy

At the last elections many southern Chadians mainly Sara and Kaba voted MLPC while many Congolese from Equateur especially from the late Mobutu Sese Seko’s Ngbandi people voted for Kolingba’s RDC...


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Africa scrambles for Africa

The Rwanda-Uganda alliance was the motor which chased Mobutu Sese Seko from power in May 1997 and installed Kabila as President...


The wages of war

Just 18 months ago these two were collaborating in a whirlwind military campaign to chase the late Mobutu Sese Seko from power...


Facing up to Savimbi

In the 1980s Chivukuvuku based in Kinshasa (then ruled by the late Mobutu Sese Seko) successfully infiltrated UNITA troops into the jungle of the Cabinda enclave and ran several secret operations involving United States' support for UNITA...


Annan and Africa

It also lacks leverage with Kigali's opponents Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government in Kinshasa; Kabila is still indignant that the UN's welcome for the overthrow of the late Mobutu Sese Seko was confined to demands for an inquiry into human rights abuses during the war against the dictator...


Militias and market forces

When Sandline asked the Foreign Office about the propriety of helping prop up Mobutu Sese Seko in late 1996 it was emphatically told to keep out of it...


Entrenched and overstretched

Thrown together are men of Mobutu Sese Seko's former army Rwandan Hutu ex-soldiers and militiamen three groups of Sudan-backed Ugandan insurgents Burundian Hutu of the extremist Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie and Congolese Interahamwé militias from the Hunde and Nyanga ethnic groups...


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