Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

Over 14 years after the fall of President Mobutu Sese Seko Congo has an army consisting of paupers – except for the Garde présidentielle...

Georges Kimba of the Overseas Katangese Community says otherwise; his father Evariste Kimba was a minister in the failed secessionist regime of Moïse Tshombe and was hanged by the late President Mobutu Sese Seko in 1966...

GFI offered Valencia’s owner Canada’s Forsys Metals US$579 million in cash in late 2008 along with other big investments in Namibia by Belgian magnate George Forrest who made his fortune under the late Mobutu Sese Seko’s regime in Congo-Kinshasa (AC Vol 49 No 11)...

One of them Mbenga Sandonga a lawyer who wants a referendum on independence was mines minister under the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko whose Katanga security chief the current provincial Interior Minister and former Ambassador to Zambia Jean- Marie Dikanga Kazadi had claimed that an armed separatist organisation controlled by General Elie Kapend Kanyimbu was preparing for trouble...

His speech paid homage to the late Mobutu Sese Seko whose 32-year dictatorship ran the country into the ground as ‘an impassioned activist for our authenticity and unity’...

The IMF and the World Bank under pressure from Britain Belgium France and the United States lent billions of dollars to President Mobutu Sese Seko’s regime in the 1980s when by most independent assessments there was little chance of the money being used for the intended reforms and developments...

That prospect upsets Labour Minister François-Joseph Nzanga Mobutu Ngbangawe (son of the late Joseph Mobutu Sese Seko) while the trades unions complain that the company has failed to produce the financial statements needed to justify the cuts...

The consolation for Kabila may be that none of these mini-rebellions can by themselves immediately threaten his grip on Kinshasa but that could quickly change as the arch-manipulator Mobutu Sese Seko found out in 1996...

The gang may have been joined by ex-soldiers of Jean-Marie Bemba’s Mouvement de Libération du Congo or even of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko’s Division Spéciale...

That could be a mistake by Kabila and his coalition allies Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito of the Parti Lumumbiste Unifié and Deputy Premier François-Joseph Nzanga Mobutu Ngbangawe of the Union des Démocrates Mobutistes and a son of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...