Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

There are obvious parallels between the current war and the rebellions of 1996 and 1998: the first led to the ousting of President Mobutu Sese Seko within a year; the second led to a succession of political crises resulting in the assassination of Mobutu’s successor Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

In Kinshasa people in Gombe district sing religious anthems and change the words to include phrases such as ‘Lord kill Kabila as you killed his father’ and jump on cars singing the ‘Zaïroise’ the national anthem of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko’s era...

Foreign Affairs International Cooperation and Francophonie go to Raymond Tshibanda N’Tungamulongo the former Cooperation Minister: he is a Muluba from Kasaï-Oriental who worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and served under President Mobutu Sese Seko...

The Tajideens came to Congo in 1997 when the late Laurent-Désiré Kabila toppled Mobutu Sese Seko...

Regardless of government protests to the contrary the law raises for some the spectre of the ‘Zaïrianisation’ of 1973 when President Mobutu Sese Seko transferred the ownership of foreign concerns not only in agriculture to friends relations and other people of influence...

That is the anniversary of the 1992 march against the late President Mobutu Sese Seko when 30 people died...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso won’t allow the extradition recalling the fate of a rebel Pierre Mulele whom he returned to the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in 1968: Mobutu executed him...

The other presidential candidates include Vital Kamerhe former Assembly President and Prime Minister under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko and Léon Lobitsch Kengo wa Dondo Senate President and another of Mobutu's Prime Ministers...

Luanda is said to favour Vital Kamerhe a former ally of Joseph Kabila’s and the Honorary President of the National Assembly founder and leader of the Union pour la nation congolaise who served under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent Kabila...

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