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Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

Date of Birth: 14 October 1930
Place of Birth: Lisala, Congo-K
Died: 7 September 1997


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The new foreign legion

After the 1994 Rwanda genocide the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 the coup d'etat in Côte d'Ivoire in 1999 French diplomats are regaining influence in Central and West Africa...


The man from uncle

Sakombi who claims to be a born-again Christian and leads a fundamentalist sect says he was Mobutu Sese Seko's Information Minister because 'the Creator President' was a devil who got inside him...


Plots galore

It is alleged that in Europe in late 2000 Kapend met a former captain of Mobutu Sese Seko's Division Spéciale Présidentielle (DSP) Aimé Atenbina and the President of the Société Minière du Congo (Somico) Philémon Naluwindja; they discussed Kabila's decision to nationalise a Canadian-held gold concession in July 1998...


Generals, tontons and kidogos

Dieudonné Kayumbe was trained at Saint-Cyr military academy in France and served in Mobutu Sese Seko's army; he gives up the job of deputy Minister of Reconstruction...


Question of survival

A Lunda from Katanga Kapend was brought up in Angola among the fighters known as the 'Katangese gendarmes' who had fled across the border after the failure of their previous rebellion against the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko...


Hope springs eternal

The organisers of this force would have to unite men from the FAC the rebel armies and the late President Mobutu Sese Seko's Forces Armées Zaïroises...


The pro-consuls decide

Even neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville came briefly under criticism because of the presence there of ex-soldiers of Mobutu Sese Seko's Forces Armées Zaïroises...


Congo imbroglio

The armed rebels did not show up nor did the followers of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social or Albert Mpeti's Forces Politiques et Sociales de l'Opposition Plurielle...


Stuck in the sand

Compaoré has indulged in Mobutu Sese Seko-like reclusion this year spending much of his time at the private zoo on his estate in Ziniaré...


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