Both had belonged to the late President Laurent Kabila's Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre then a rebel movement which brought together Congolese militias Congolese Tutsi and Rwandan soldiers to overthrow the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...
Kinshasa has enjoyed a long relationship with Pyongyang; in 1975 President Mobutu Sese Seko handed over the training to North Korean troops of his redoubtable Kamanyola Division...
Vol 50 No 25 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
He was the late President Mobutu Sese Seko’s Special Advisor on Security and lives outside Paris...
President Joseph Kabila owes a lot to Angola's rulers who helped his late father Laurent-Désiré Kabila to overthrow President Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 then supported him against armed uprisings in 1998-2003...
Vol 50 No 20 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
For many Congolese this suggests a return to the pattern set by Mobutu Sese Seko...
This it is said would enable party enforcers to know who voted for whom an electoral technique widely used in Burundi in the past and also in the late President Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaïre...
Vol 50 No 17 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
On 8 July no fewer than 20 parliamentarians had flown to Brussels to pay homage to him out on licence for the funeral mass of his father Senator Jeannot Bemba Saolona friend of Mobutu Sese Seko...
Vol 50 No 11 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Overwhelmingly those debts date back to loans from the IMF and World Bank to the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko...
Vol 50 No 10 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Two weeks after Evariste Boshab a close ally of President Joseph Kabila was elected Speaker of the National Assembly and the independent-minded Vital Kamerhe had been forced from the Speaker's post minority politicians are complaining about a return to a 'single-party' behaviour reminiscent of Presidents Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent Kabila...
Vol 50 No 9 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Some see a return to the 'single-party' behaviour familiar under the late Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent-Désiré Kabila...