Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

When the waters receded Congolese fishing communities settled there and persuaded police to guard them giving Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaire a de facto claim to it...

• Kasongo's father was a senior official at the Banque Commercial du Congo during the rule of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...

This makes the veteran politician - Premier under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko - constitutional number two...

Many Congolese and diplomats reckon that the new regime is establishing absolute authority with as little regard for human rights as the previous regimes of Laurent-Désiré Kabila and Mobutu Sese Seko...

A speedy substantial international response will be needed to avert national schisms like those that erupted after the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko's regime in Zaïre in May 1997...

2010 would take Mugabe's rule up to 30 years – from whence he would be competing with a select few of Africa's longest-serving despots for instance Mobutu Sese Seko who was in power for 32 years (1965-1997)...

Although Kabila enlisted Antoine Gizenga 80 of the Parti Lumumbiste Unifié (Palu) and François Joseph Mobutu Nzanga Ngangawe of the Union des Démocrates Mobutistes (UDEMO) the son of the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko the second election round confirmed the east-west schism established in the first round...

'Among the many highpoints for her work were on behalf of rural women in Angola and Mozambique writing on the evils of the Mobutu Sese Seko regime in Zaïre (now Congo-Kinshasa) and the months she spent living as the only outsider in a small Sudanese community' writes the Africa Faith and Justice Network...

However on 18 September Nzanga (son of the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko) declared that he was backing Kabila after all...

When Bemba returned to Kinshasa at the end of his campaign thousands of his supporters lined the roads shouting angrily and trying to smash up journalists and their vehicles; some were holding posters of the late Mobutu Sese Seko...