Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

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...

For many Congolese this suggests a return to the pattern set by Mobutu Sese Seko...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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)...

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...

foreign debt accumulated under kleptocratic leader Mobutu Sese Seko who was chased from power in 1997...