Vol 54 No 5 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Elected to Parliament in 1980 he opposed the late President Mobutu Sese Seko’s regime alongside Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba veteran leader of the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS)...
Vol 53 No 24 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
There are obvious parallels between the current war and the rebellions of 1996 and 1998: the first led to the ousting of President Mobutu Sese Seko within a year; the second led to a succession of political crises resulting in the assassination of Mobutu’s successor Laurent-Désiré Kabila...
Vol 53 No 18 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
In Kinshasa people in Gombe district sing religious anthems and change the words to include phrases such as ‘Lord kill Kabila as you killed his father’ and jump on cars singing the ‘Zaïroise’ the national anthem of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko’s era...
Vol 53 No 11 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Foreign Affairs International Cooperation and Francophonie go to Raymond Tshibanda N’Tungamulongo the former Cooperation Minister: he is a Muluba from Kasaï-Oriental who worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and served under President Mobutu Sese Seko...
Vol 53 No 7 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The Tajideens came to Congo in 1997 when the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila toppled Mobutu Sese Seko...
Vol 53 No 5 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Regardless of government protests to the contrary the law raises for some the spectre of the ‘Zaïrianisation’ of 1973 when President Mobutu Sese Seko transferred the ownership of foreign concerns not only in agriculture to friends relations and other people of influence...
Vol 53 No 2 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
That is the anniversary of the 1992 march against the late President Mobutu Sese Seko when 30 people died...
Vol 52 No 22 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Denis Sassou-Nguesso won’t allow the extradition recalling the fate of a rebel Pierre Mulele whom he returned to the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in 1968: Mobutu executed him...
Vol 52 No 19 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The other presidential candidates include Vital Kamerhe former Assembly President and Prime Minister under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko and Léon Lobitsch Kengo wa Dondo Senate President and another of Mobutu's Prime Ministers...
Luanda is said to favour Vital Kamerhe a former ally of Joseph Kabila’s and the Honorary President of the National Assembly founder and leader of the Union pour la nation congolaise who served under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent Kabila...