Having given sanctuary to late President  Mobutu Sese Seko  Morocco is maintaining close ties  with Joseph Kabila  some of whose intelligence  and close protection agents are being trained by Moroccan security...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 44 No 14 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Mining goes to Eugène Diomi Ndongala from Bas-Congo  a civilian opposition figure allied to the government who was a deputy Finance Minister under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 44 No 13 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Tshisekedi  the protesters' preferred candidate  is a cantankerous opposition veteran who has strongly opposed the Mobutu Sese Seko and Kabila regimes but has bizarrely allied himself with the Rwandan-based RCD-Goma...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Pretoria has been involved in Great Lakes politics since 1996  when it tried and failed to broker a settlement between Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko and his eventual successor Laurent-Desiré Kabila...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     debt to President Nelson Mandela's government in 1994) or in Congo-Kinshasa where the hyper-corrupt regime of Mobutu Sese Seko bequeathed a $15 bn...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Many fear the MCA will become an instrument of US foreign policy for backing 'friends of Washington' in the Mobutu Sese Seko or Jonas Savimbi mould...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 44 No 1 | 
            - CENTRAL AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	    This year  Central Africa and the Great Lakes region have a chance to break the ten-year cycle of violence since the Rwandan genocide and the ousting of President Mobutu Sese Seko...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 43 No 21 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     In 33 years in power  Congo's own Mobutu Sese Seko was reckoned to have stolen $5 bn...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 43 No 19 | 
            - IRAQ
 - AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed the loss of two rods of enriched uranium from Kinshasa  apparently stolen during the overthrow of President Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 43 No 10 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	      The hawks in Kabila's camp  in the Mouvement du 17 Mai  accuse Bemba of trying to hand power to followers of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...