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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 pro-consuls decide

Even neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville came briefly under criticism because of the presence there of ex-soldiers of Mobutu Sese Seko's Forces Armées Zaïroises...


Congo imbroglio

The armed rebels did not show up nor did the followers of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social or Albert Mpeti's Forces Politiques et Sociales de l'Opposition Plurielle...


Stuck in the sand

Compaoré has indulged in Mobutu Sese Seko-like reclusion this year spending much of his time at the private zoo on his estate in Ziniaré...


Bonding in Brussels

Present will be Pierre Pay Pay wa Siakhassighe who was Minister of Finance under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko and has recently emerged as a leading opposition figure in Kivu province; he can influence both Kivu's MaiMai opposition fighters and Mbusa Nyamwisi's Bunia wing of the RCD-Mouvement de Libération backed by Uganda...


High street havens

The probe could lead to a huge repatriation of stolen funds from Switzerland; smaller cash piles stolen by the Mobutu Sese Seko and Moussa Traoré families were returned to Congo-Kinshasa and Mali...


Dropping Kabila

Washington and London are critical of his diplomatic brinkmanship; older counsels in Paris and Brussels delight in saying 'We told you so' to Anglophone diplomats who had greeted Kabila's arrival and Mobutu Sese Seko's departure in 1997 with some glee...


A losing gamble

Other ALC commanders served in the late Mobutu Sese Seko's Forces Armées Zairoises (FAZ) or Division Spéciale Présidentielle escaped from Kabila's reeducation camps' and have fought the FAC since the lightning attack of August 1998 in Bas-Congo by Rwandan Commandant James Kabarehe...


Bemba's boys

After the MLC was set up Laurent Kabila appointed Bemba's father ex-Mobutu Sese Seko minister Jeannot Bemba Saolona as Economy Minister...


The military-metropolitan team

Jeannou Lacaze Chief of Staff of the French army in the 1980s; he was security advisor to the Zaïrean President Mobutu Sese Seko then to military leaders Gnassingbé Eyadéma in Togo and Idriss Déby in Chad...


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