Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

For decades - even under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko - Miba was a major source of jobs and revenue to Kasaï...

In 1997 when anti-Mobutu Sese Seko rebels were moving towards the province Kasaïens welcomed the fighters saying they shared their opposition to the late dictator...

Forrest is also well known in Kinshasa: he was a partner of Gécamines during Mobutu Sese Seko's era...

As it did for Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaïrean government in the 1980s the Bank has placed Kenyan technocrats deemed sympathetic to economic reform in key government positions...

Unlike his predecessor Mobutu Sese Seko who assumed foreign troops would bail him out if necessary he has not wilfully neglected his army...

Beaming notably plump applauded by his Ministers of Foreign Affairs Justice and Information flanked by his American lobbyists and wearing an abacost jacket like those once sported by Mobutu Sese Seko Kabila said all his concerns had been met gleefully but inaccurately claiming that Britain and France had named Rwanda and Uganda as aggressors...

Few believed anything could be worse than 33 years of rule by Mobutu Sese Seko...

The compensation game (Congolese demanding reparations for Belgian colonialism and Belgian businesses demanding compensation for companies nationalised under Mobutu Sese Seko) seems likely to be stalemated...

The Swiss authorities have already opened up some accounts and Swiss banks have had to disclose information about account-holders such as Mali's Moussa Traoré Nigeria's Abacha and family Gabon's Bongo and family and Zaïre's late Mobutu Sese Seko...

The main RCD spokesperson has been Kin-Kiey Mulumba formerly Mobutu Sese Seko's information chief and a Reuters' stringer whose flood of frontline despatches have failed to convince international opinion of the RCD position...