Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

CENCO played a prominent part in opposition politics; the church joined the peace marches of 1992 which began the process of toppling the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and in the protests last year against the postponement of elections which were put down with much loss of life...

He also surprised Gbadolite the hometown of Mobutu Sese Seko by holding a minute's silence to the memory of the long-serving dictator who was ousted by Kabila's father in 1997...

First it entrenches the old 1996-2003 wartime network that formed Laurent-Desiré Kabila's Rwandan-backed Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo (AFDL) that deposed President Mobutu Sese Seko...

Goetz first came to the Great Lakes region in the 1980s and by 1994 had secured a near monopoly on gold in Zaire then ruled by Mobutu Sese Seko with his Bujumbura-based refinery – Affimet now defunct – producing several tonnes a year...

Key among the AA64 leadership we hear is Deogratias Bugera the former number two in the late Laurent-Desiré Kabila's Alliance des Forces Démocratique pour la Libération du Congo-Zaire (AFDL) the force that deposed President Mobutu Sese Seko (AC Vol 51 No 2 Two generals fail to make peace)...

He previously worked in the US government's regional security office in Kinshasa during the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko...

Prior to that Goetz traded in gold from eastern Congo during the regime of the late Mobutu Sese Seko...

A former prime minister under the late dictator President Joseph Mobutu Sese Seko and leader of the main opposition party the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS) Tshisekedi was an emblematic figure around whom the many factions of the opposition had recently rallied...

Today he is effusive in his praise of Tshisekedi the old warhorse who has been a thorn in the side of the late Mobutu Sese Seko and both Kabilas...

In life Papa Wemba generally stayed out of politics though his self-proclaimed presidency of the designer label-obsessed Société des ambianceurs et des personnes élégantes (SAPE Society of mood-creators and elegant people) accompanied by his eclectic personal fashion sense was a deliberate and provocative rejection of the drab Mao Zedong-inspired menswear called the abacos which the late President Mobutu Sese Seko insisted upon...