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	Mobutu Sese Seko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mobutu was born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu in Lisala, Belgian Congo.
		Mobutu also might be considered as the influence to some of the characters in the works of writers such as Wole Soyinka in his poetry, or Chinua Achebe in Anthills of the Savannah.
		Mobutu appointed Kengo Wa Dondo, an advocate of austerity and free-market reforms, as prime minister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Mobutu (1105 words)

	Mobutu Sésé Seko -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mobutu was born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu in Lisala, (A republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960) Belgian Congo.
		Mobutu was becoming increasingly physically frail and during one of his absences for medical treatment in Europe, (A member of a Bantu speaking people living in Rwanda and Burundi) Tutsis captured much of eastern Zaire.
		Mobutu died in September 1997 in exile in (The capital of Morocco; located in the northwestern on the Atlantic coast) Rabat, (A kingdom (constitutional monarchy) in northwestern Africa with a largely Muslim population; achieved independence from France in 1956) Morocco, from (Cancer of the prostate gland) prostate cancer which had been developing since 1962.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mobutu_s%e9s%e9_seko.htm (1078 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Mobutu Sese Seko
		Born Joseph Désiré Mobutu in Lisala in the north of the former Belgian colony of Belgian Congo, Mobutu was educated in missionary schools.
		Mobutu nominally turned power over to Kasavubu and fought the secession of Katanga, which was put down in 1963.
		Mobutu consolidated his power by sharing the country’s wealth with political allies, a system often described as a kleptocracy.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761578969__1/Mobutu_Sese_Seko.html (1124 words)

	Mobutu
		Mobutu, whose speech was given on the rear terrace of the presidential bungalow, pledged to pursue a transition toward democracy that has been stalled for six years.
		Mobutu, who seized power in a military coup in 1965, has never been elected to the presidency, and Zaire is the only country in Central Africa not to have organized national elections since a wave of democratization swept much of Africa in the early 1990s.
		Mobutu's deep unpopularity forced him to move to a riverboat at the turn of the decade, and finally, in 1991, to his village in northern Zaire, where his grip on day-to-day affairs slowly but inevitably declined.
	www.edlis.org /twice/threads/mobutu.html (3053 words)

	MOBUTU SESE SEKO FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku wa za Banga (or Mobutu Sese Seko Koko Ngbendu Wa Za Banga; October_14, 1930 – September_7, 1997) was the President of Zaire (now the Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo) for 32 years (1965 – 1997).
		Mobutu appointed Kengo_Wa_Dondo, an advocate of austerity and free-market reforms, as prime minister.
		Mobutu died in September 1997 in exile in Rabat, Morocco, from prostate_cancer which had been developing since 1962.
	www.beatlesfacts.com /Mobutu_Sese_Seko (1011 words)

	Congo, Democratic Republic of the Mobutu, Self-Proclaimed Father of the Nation - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, ...
		Mobutu was born in the town of Lisala, on the Congo River, on October 4, 1930.
		Mobutu referred frequently both to his humble background as the son of a cook and to the renown of his father's uncle, a warrior and diviner from the village of Gbadolite.
		Mobutu, who had completed four years of primary school in Léopoldville, took seven more years to reach the secondary level, moving in and out of different schools.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/congo_democratic_republic_of_the/congo_democratic_republic_of_the_history_mobutu_self_proclaimed_father_of_the_nation.html (884 words)

	CNN - Mobutu dies in exile in Morocco - Sept. 7, 1997
		The cause of death was described as a "long illness." Mobutu had reportedly been suffering from advanced prostate cancer and had traveled to Europe for medical treatment during the last year of his rule.
		Mobutu fled from what was then called Zaire in May after forces led by rebel leader Laurent Kabila marched from strongholds in the eastern part of the central African nation to the outskirts of the capital, Kinshasa -- meeting surprisingly little resistance from Mobutu's collapsing army.
		But Mobutu, known for his trademark leopard-skin hat, amassed a personal fortune estimated to be as much as $5 billion, with homes in Switzerland and France.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9709/07/mobutu.wrap (727 words)

	CNN - After 32 years, Mobutu relinquishes power - May 16, 1997
		Mobutu flew from Kinshasa early Friday to his home town of Gbadolite for what his spokesman called a "short rest." But hours later, an official government statement said the longtime president would take no further role in governing of Zaire.
		Mobutu left the capital Friday as rebels were reported to be as close as 15 miles (24 km) from Kinshasa.
		Diplomatic sources told CNN that Mobutu was first traveling to his presidential palace in his hometown of Gbadolite in northern Zaire for a brief stop.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9705/16/zaire (631 words)

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		Mobutu to be buried in Moroccan capital-diplomats=20 10:17 p.m.
		He was 66.=20 Mobutu, who for decades was a strong anti-communist ally of the United States in Africa, died of prostate cancer at the Mohamed V military hospital in Rabat, said two hospital workers who spoke on condition of anonymity.=20 The Maghreb Arab Press agency said only that Mobutu had died at 9:30 p.m.
		Mobutu headed to the solace of his palace in the northern town of Gbadolite, relinquishing power to his government but keeping the title of president.=20 That fell the next day, when Kabila's army marched into Kinshasa virtually unopposed.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/97af/Mobutu_Dies:_Press_Roundup (2063 words)

	Mobutu plans to meet with rebel leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mobutu, 66, and ill with prostate cancer, agreed to discuss a transition of power in a meeting with Kabila on Wednesday in Pointe Noire, Congo, said South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, whose country has been acting as a mediator in Zaire's war.
		With Kabila's fighters closing in, Mobutu had left the country for a summit of regional leaders in Gabon on Wednesday, raising questions about whether he was giving up and heading into exile.
		Mobutu himself said nothing, driving to his private Boeing 727 at Libreville's airport in a Rolls-Royce and staying out of sight once he landed in Kinshasa under extraordinary security that underscored the government's concerns about the rebel threat.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/051197/mobutu.htm (320 words)

	Afw
		Mobutu attempted to reconvene the Assembly, which had been dissolved six weeks earlier for the period of the transition, to override restrictions on his power imposed by the National Conference.
		Mobutu rejected the right of the Conference to adopt such legislation, and demanded that the Conference conclude its proceedings by the end of the month.
		Even before the confrontation at the end of 1992 between the National Conference and Mobutu, supported by parts of the armed forces, soldiers frustrated at the non-payment of their wages had been at the center of the many cases of looting and disorder that have paralyzed the economy since the major disturbances of September 1991.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1993/WR93/Afw-11.htm (2526 words)

	Anatomy of an Autocracy: Mobutu's 32-Year Reign
		Mobutu has been called one of the world's wealthiest heads of state, a brutal dictator, an inveterate meddler in the affairs of neighbors and a colossal ego.
		Mobutu, a journalist and army sergeant, had been picked by Lumumba as chief of staff and prodded toward the center of the political stage by the CIA, which had chosen him as its best tool for keeping the nation out of the socialist orbit.
		As an unmistakable Mobutu style began to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it became clear that the Zairian leader's ambition was to fashion a great African state.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/africa/051797zaire-mobutu.html (2756 words)

	Sovereignty and Personal Rule in Zaire
		Mobutu left individual military units and commercial syndicates to forage on their own, signaling what appeared to be the dissolution of Zaire.
		Mobutu's allocation of 2.1 percent of state spending to health and education in 1990, versus 17.5 percent in 1972, reflects a rational choice from the perspective of a weak state ruler (18).
		Mobutu's dilemma was that he could intrude even more into clandestine economies, but doing so generated ire on the part of strongmen and local authorities who tapped these economies for their own benefit.
	www.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v1/3/4.htm (12200 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Congo Report
		Mobutu sacked the prime minister he had appointed a week ago and replaced him with a general who vowed to curtail civil liberties.
		Mobutu, who at 66 is gravely ill with prostate cancer, has resisted weeks of pressure from the United States and other foreign governments to make political concessions to his opponents, who demand his ouster.
		Mobutu appointed Tshisekedi last week in place of Kengo wa Dondo, who had lost virtually all political support during the six months the rebels have taken to seize most of eastern Zaire.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/africa/april/10/zfalls.htm (1110 words)

	Mobutu Sese Seko -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Joseph-Désiré Mobutu was born in Lisala, Belgian Congo, on Oct. 14, 1930.
		It rises to 16,795 feet (5,119 m) between Lake Albert (Lake Mobutu Sese Seko) to the north and Lake Edward to the south on the Congo (Kinshasa)–Uganda border.
		With the defeat of Zairean government forces and the departure of President Mobutu Sese Seko in the spring of 1997, the victorious rebel leader Laurent Kabila renamed Zaire the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275879 (708 words)

	AllRefer.com - Mobutu Sese Seko (African History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Mobutu Sese Seko[mObOO´tO sA´sA sA´kO] Pronunciation Key, 1930–97, president of ZaIre (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
		In 1960 he led an army coup against the nationalist government of Patrice Lumumba; Mobutu soon became the army chief of staff.
		Power was concentrated in Mobutu, who, backed by Western intelligence agencies that saw in him a foil to such leftist states as Angola, established a one-party state and a cult of personality.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Mobutu.html (370 words)

	CNN.com - Mobutu's son visits rebels in Congo - October 8, 2000
		Nzanga Mobutu, who has been acting as a family spokesman since Kabila ousted Mobutu and forced his family and supporters into exile in May 1997, arrived in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on Saturday and plans to visit towns under rebel control in eastern Congo next week, said rebel spokesman Kin-Kiey Mulumba.
		Mobutu died of a prostate cancer in exile in Morocco in September 1997.
		Nzanga Mobutu, on his first trip to Congo since he fled Kinshasa in 1997, was received by the Rwandan-backed Congolese Rally for Democracy, which is fighting in southern and southeastern Congo.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/10/08/congo.mobutu..son.ap (608 words)

	The Consortium
		That Cold War covert action contributed to Mobutu Sese Seko's emergence as a political power and put him in position to loot his country's riches as one of history's most corrupt dictators.
		Amid Mobutu's flight into exile and the rebel takeover of the capital of Kinshasa, there has been little discussion in the U.S. media about the underlying historical causes of the Zairian tragedy.
		Mobutu would outdo even Leopold, selling off the Congo's resources and stashing billions of dollars in Swiss bank accounts, while his constituents continued to starve.
	www.consortiumnews.com /archive/story31.html (1288 words)

	FOCUS: LAST OF THE ``BIG MEN'' MOBUTU SESE SEKO, THE EXILED AFRICAN DICTATOR WHO DIED SUNDAY, WAS A COLD WAR RELIC: A ...
		Mobutu, 66, who died Sunday after a prolonged bout with prostate cancer, looted Zaire's treasury over three decades of iron-fisted rule before he was overthrown last May and driven into exile.
		Mobutu held together one of Africa's potentially most prosperous countries, bringing a measure of stability to a nation the size of Western Europe, strained by intense rivalries among 250 ethnic groups.
		To cement Mobutu's dictatorship and keep potential rivals at bay, senior politicians from the previous government were appointed to overseas diplomatic posts.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970909/09090471.htm (936 words)

	Prentiss Riddle: Books: Mobutu's Congo, or a misapplication of Conrad and Kurtz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mobutu's Congo, or a misapplication of Conrad and Kurtz
		Mobutu was a brilliant and ambitious soldier from the Congolese backwoods who ruled the country for over thirty years.
		Mobutu used his single-handed control of its resources to become one of the greatest kleptocrats of all time, stealing billions while sending the bulk of his subjects ever deeper into poverty.
	www.aprendizdetodo.com /books?item=20030507 (553 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Mobutu's son returns to Congo
		Nzanga Mobutu has returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo for the first time since his father - the late Mobutu Sese Seko - was ousted and forced to flee the then Zaire nearly three years ago.
		While acknowledging the mistakes and excesses of Mobutuism, the son of the late president blames much of DR Congo's decline on the opportunists and charlatans who found their way into his father's entourage.
		Mr Mobutu is unimpressed by the attempts made by journalists to track down his father's missing millions, saying he and his surviving siblings have got by on their own talent and endeavour.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/africa/newsid_992000/992381.stm (690 words)

	Zaire: IRIN Briefing Part III, 02/27/97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In December 1996, amid speculation that Mobutu would reinstate Tshisekedi as prime minister, Kengo was reconfirmed as head of the new crisis government which was established to deal with the Allied Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL) attacks in the east and the transition to general elections.
		Mobutu, who was perceived to be a bulwark against communism in the region, ultimately seized power in 1965 with the aid of the army -- his second coup since independence.
		Mobutu, who retained political control over the army, immediately replaced him with General Eluki and scattered the Berets Rouges throughout Zaire under the pretext that they were plotting a rebellion.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Hornet/irin3.html (6770 words)

	George Bush Presidential Library and Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The President met with President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire for 2 hours and 15 minutes today, including a private one-on-one meeting in the Oval Office, an expanded plenary meeting in the Cabinet Room, and a luncheon in the Residence.
		President Mobutu recently organized and chaired the successful Gbadolite summit, which led to a cease-fire and the start of negotiations between UNITA [National Union for the Total Independence of Angola] and the MPLA [Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola] in Angola.
		President Mobutu briefed the President about the summit and the status of proceedings to arrange the talks which we hope will lead to national reconciliation in Angola.
	bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/papers/1989/89062901.html (288 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		President Mobutu, former president (dictator) of the Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) was the prototype African dictator (albeit without the bloodlust of other famous African dictators) squandering the natural resources of a rich and fertile country, and pillaging the country's revenues for his own ends.
		Wrong visits Mobutu's old palace retreat and discusses the fittings and finishing's of the palace, which has fallen in shambles after it was looted when his government fell.
		Both Mobutu and Kurtz were corrupted by power and the vast wealth hidden in the darkest Africa, and once they tasted those sweet riches, their appetites became insatiable and cost Africa dearly.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060934433?v=glance (2676 words)

	Costs of the CIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As Franklin Roosevelt said in another context, he was an S.O.B., but he was our S.O.B. In the 1970's we enlisted President Mobutu in a particular cold war adventure: the arming of Jonas Savimbi, the Angolan rebel leader, in his attempt to overthrow the leftist Government of Angola.
		Mobutu to retire, but the idea was quashed.
		"Mobutuism is about to become a creature of history," Michael McCurry, the White House spokesman, said on April 9, washing America's hands of its S.O.B. at long last.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/ciacost.htm (690 words)

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