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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 balance of forces

Bolozi Gbudu Tankipama brother-in-law of Mobutu Sese Seko: this military intelligence unit has lost much of its capacity; strength reduced to a ‘few thousand'...


Follow the Guide

The Prime Minister Léon Lobitsch Kengo wa Dondo said last month that President Mobutu Sese Seko would come home from Switzerland in October to start work again after his operation for prostate cancer on 22 August (AC Vol 37 No 19)...


Standing (by)

Fears are also growing of fighting in Zaïre if President Mobutu Sese Seko' s authority collapses...


Holding out hope

Once President Mobutu Sese Seko had been identified as 'the only man who could keep Zaïre and even central Africa together' he was allowed to reign unhindered...


Military operation

Desperately thin and recovering uncertainly from his operation for cancer of the prostate on 22 August President Mobutu Sese Seko is worrying his friends in Paris and Washington...


Balance of terror

Many officers disapproved of Bagaza; as President in 1976-87 he persecuted the Catholic Church and antagonised President Mobutu Sese Seko...


The foreign fronts

Hutu leaders'suspicions are heightened by French and Belgian sensitivity to Museveni's Hima friends speaking Kiswahili or English not French; President Mobutu Sese Seko also wants to safeguard the French language culture and military protection...


Pré carré revisted

This did not exactly sound like a threat especially since in June Paris had resumed aid to President Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaïre contrary to the policy of the 'Troika': Belgium France and the United States...


Buyoya perhaps

Daniel arap Moi's Kenya and Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaïre which have in various ways given succour to Burundian and Rwandan Hutu militants are respectively ambivalent and downright hostile to Buyoya...


Intervention on the agenda

Also represented at Arusha were the presidency of the Organisation of African Unity Ethiopia Kenya Rwanda Tanzania Uganda and Zaïre (not President Mobutu Sese Seko or Premier Kengo wa Dondo but Foreign Minister Jean-Marie Kititwa)...


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