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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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Throwing out the neighbours

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...


Nkurunziza's formula for victory

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...


Sweet freedom

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...


The China choice

Overwhelmingly those debts date back to loans from the IMF and World Bank to the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko...


A credit-crunch presidency

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...


Speak easy

Some see a return to the 'single-party' behaviour familiar under the late Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent-Désiré Kabila...


Gagner-gagner - they claim

Kinshasa has won promises of substantive and rapid relief on some US$11 billion of debt owed to the Bank and the Fund which dates back to the rule of the West's Cold War ally President Mobutu Sese Seko (1965-1997)...


Debt, markets and Beijing

foreign debt consists of political loans from the Fund and the Bank made in the 1970s and 1980s to the kleptocratic regime of Mobutu Sese Seko...


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