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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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Digging in

This was a stinging blow to President Mobutu Sese Seko's plans for a military fightback...


Border brothers

There is no love lost betwen Museveni and President Mobutu Sese Seko...


Low key in Ouaga

President Mobutu Sese Seko was detained elsewhere but everybody in Ouagadougou wanted to know what was happening to his country...


Mining for trouble

South African ex-soldiers have been recruited to protect the mines around Kolwezi and were reinforced in late November by 1 000 soldiers of President Mobutu Sese Seko's Division Spéciale Présidentielle...


A hard homecoming

President Mobutu Sese Seko's heralded return home will do little to turn the tide of defeat and demoralisation...


Dissonant voices

Plans for the intervention force to seize Goma and Bukavu airports from opposition forces led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila and the Banyamulenge rebels seem to have been shelved – and with them President Mobutu Sese Seko's hopes that a military-backed humanitarian mission might help break the opposition hold on Kivu...


Moi-butu

In the battle for eastern Zaïre Museveni favours the Banyamulenge rebels and their Rwandan allies; Moi favours the Rwandan former army the Interahamwé militias and their allies in President Mobutu Sese Seko's government...


Kinshasa questions

Analysts on the Quai d'Orsay we hear are being asked two key questions: how can the rebels' grip over Eastern Zaïre be broken (in particular their control of Bukavu and Goma airports) and how can Mobutu Sese Seko's weakness be managed to prevent an implosion in Zaïre and beyond...


Zaïre starts to crack

While President Mobutu Sese Seko issues orders from his sickbed in Switzerland his army is routed in Kivu...


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