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Mobutu Sese Seko

Personal data
Date of birth14 October 1930
Place of birthLisala, Belgian Congo
Date of death7 September 1997(age 66)
Place of deathRabat, Morocco
NationalityCongolese
Political partyPopular Movement of the Revolution
SpouseMarie-Antoinette Mobutu (Deceased)
Bobi Ladawa
President of Zaïre
In office24 November 1965 - 16 May 1997
Prime ministerSeveral
Succeeded byLaurent-Désiré Kabila
Preceded byJoseph Kasa-Vubu

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Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga (14 October 1930 � 7 September 1997), commonly known as Mobutu or Mobutu Sese Seko ( in English), born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, was the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (also known as Zaire for much of his reign) from 1965 to 1997. While in office, he formed an authoritarian regime, amassed vast personal wealth, and attempted to purge the country of all colonial cultural influence, while also maintaining an anti-communist stance.

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British Journalist Michela Wrong to Speak at CPPC 2010 - Caribbean PressReleases.com (press release) Tweet this news
Caribbean PressReleases.com (press release)--Then she was off to Kinshasa, on assignment for the BBC, to cover the fall of Zairean dictator -Mobutu Sese Seko- and Rwanda is its post-genocide era. ... - Date : Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:24:25 GMT+00:00
Dissecting Rwandan criticism of UN report on Congo genocide - Christian Science Monitor Tweet this news
Christian Science Monitor--The remains of a destroyed luxury resort built by the late dictator -Mobutu Sese Seko- in Virunga National Park and occupied by rebels during the long-running ... - Date : Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:09:22 GMT+00:00
Faces of War: Background to war - National Post Tweet this news
National Post---...- “Africa's First World War” in 1996 when rebel leader Laurent Kabila, backed by Rwanda and Uganda, attacked Zaire and toppled dictator -Mobutu Sese Seko-. ... - Date : Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:04:29 GMT+00:00
The Ghost of Mao-Tse Tung and military ethnocracy in Zim - NewsDay Tweet this news
NewsDay--Those who want to know what a military regime can do to a country and a people must check the record of Idi Amin Dada in Uganda and -Mobutu Sese Seko- in ... - Date : Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:42:19 GMT+00:00
DRC opposition figure to run for president - AFP Tweet this news
AFP--The UDPS, the main opposition party during the reign of Congolese dictator -Mobutu Sese Seko- (1965-1997), had called for a boycott of the 2006 elections, ... - Date : Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:16:20 GMT+00:00
UN report: Rwandan army may have committed genocide - Ynetnews Tweet this news
Ynetnews--The report details crimes committed in the former Belgian colony between 1993 and 2003, a period that saw the fall of dictator -Mobutu Sese Seko- and a ... - Date : Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:36:24 GMT+00:00
DR Congo arrests two over UN attack - Aljazeera.net Tweet this news
Aljazeera.net--Rebels ousted longtime dictator -Mobutu Sese Seko- in 1997, then turned on each other in back-to-back civil wars that became an international scramble for the ... - Date : Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:14:54 GMT+00:00
Do the Hutu and Tutsi of Rwanda nurse ancient hatred? - The Independent Tweet this news
The Independent--In attendance were the presidents of Rwanda's neighbours: Zaire's -Mobutu Sese Seko-, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Tanzania's Ali Hassan Mwinyi. ... - Date : Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:23:39 GMT+00:00
DRC opposition chief Tshisekedi to run for president - RFI Tweet this news
RFI--Tshisekedi, who opposed the military-backed regime of -Mobutu Sese Seko- in the 1980s, accused current President Joseph Kabila Kabange of being “even worse” ... - Date : Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:16:17 GMT+00:00
Death Is A Leveller - Nigerian Observer Tweet this news
Nigerian Observer--Even though the late emperor -Mobutu Sese Seko- of Central Africa Republic, although a one room emperor, could not impose himself without some brutish aids; ... - Date : Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:05:12 GMT+00:00

Preceded by
Joseph Kasa Vubu
as
President of the Republic of the Congo
President of Zaire (before 1971 President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
24 November 1965 - 16 May 1997
Succeeded by
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
as
President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo



Heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Joseph Kasavubu * Antoine Gizenga (rebel) * Joseph Mobutu/Mobutu Sese Seko * Laurent-Désiré Kabila * Joseph Kabila

Chairpersons of the Organization of African Unity and the African Union (AU)

Selassie * Nasser * Nkrumah * Ankrah * Selassie * Mobutu * Boumédienne * Ahidjo * Kaunda * Daddah * Hassan II * Gowon * Barre * Amin * Ramgoolam * Bongo * Nimeiry * Tolbert * Senghor * Stevens * Moi * Mengistu * Nyerere * Diouf * Nguesso * Kaunda * Traoré * Mubarak * Museveni * Babangida * Diouf * Mubarak * Ben Ali * Meles * Biya * Mugabe * Compaoré * Bouteflika * Eyadéma * Chiluba * Mwanawasa * Mbeki * Chissano * Obasanjo * Nguesso * Kufuor * Kikwete * al-Gaddafi * Mutharika |

Cold War

1940sYalta Conference * Operation Unthinkable * Potsdam Conference * Gouzenko Affair * War in Vietnam (1945 �1946) * Iran crisis of 1946 * Greek Civil War * Restatement of Policy on Germany * First Indochina War * Truman Doctrine * Asian Relations Conference * Marshall Plan * Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948 * Tito �Stalin split * Berlin Blockade * Western betrayal * Iron Curtain * Eastern Bloc * Chinese Civil War (Second round)
1950sKorean War * 1953 Iranian coup d'état * Uprising of 1953 in East Germany * 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état * Partition of Vietnam * First Taiwan Strait Crisis * Geneva Summit (1955) * Poznań 1956 protests * Hungarian Revolution of 1956 * Suez Crisis * Sputnik crisis * Second Taiwan Strait Crisis * Cuban Revolution * Kitchen Debate * Asian �African Conference * Bricker Amendment * McCarthyism * Operation Gladio * Hallstein Doctrine
1960sCongo Crisis * Sino-Soviet split * 1960 U-2 incident * Bay of Pigs Invasion * Cuban Missile Crisis * Berlin Wall * Vietnam War * 1964 Brazilian coup d'état * 1965 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic * South African Border War * Transition to the New Order * Domino theory * ASEAN Declaration * Laotian Civil War * Greek military junta of 1967 �1974 * Six Day War * Cultural Revolution * Sino-Indian War * Prague Spring * Goulash Communism * Sino-Soviet border conflict
1970sDétente * Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty * Black September in Jordan * Cambodian Civil War * Realpolitik * Ping Pong Diplomacy * Four Power Agreement on Berlin * 1972 Nixon visit to China * 1973 Chilean coup d'état * Yom Kippur War * Strategic Arms Limitation Talks * Angolan Civil War * Mozambican Civil War * Ogaden War * Cambodian �Vietnamese War * Sino-Vietnamese War * Iranian Revolution * Operation Condor * Bangladesh Liberation War * Korean Air Lines Flight 902
1980sSoviet war in Afghanistan * 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics boycotts * Solidarity (Soviet reaction) * Contras * Central American crisis * RYAN * Korean Air Lines Flight 007 * Able Archer 83 * Strategic Defense Initiative * Invasion of Grenada * People Power Revolution * Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 * United States invasion of Panama * Fall of the Berlin Wall * Revolutions of 1989 * Glasnost * Perestroika
1990sDemocratic Revolution in Mongolia * Breakup of Yugoslavia * Dissolution of the USSR * Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
See alsoSoviet and Russian espionage in * Soviet Union � United States relations * NATO �Russia relations
OrganizationsASEAN * CIA * Comecon * EEC * KGB * MI6 * Stasi
RacesArms race * Nuclear arms race * Space Race
IdeologiesCapitalism * Communism (Castroism * Guevarism * Juche * Maoism * Stalinism * Titoism * Trotskyism) * Liberal democracy
PropagandaActive measures * Izvestia * Pravda * Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty * Red Scare * TASS * Voice of America * Voice of Russia
Foreign policyTruman Doctrine * Marshall Plan * Containment * Eisenhower Doctrine * Domino theory * Kennedy Doctrine * Peaceful coexistence * Ostpolitik * Johnson Doctrine * Brezhnev Doctrine * Nixon Doctrine * Ulbricht Doctrine * Carter Doctrine * Reagan Doctrine * Rollback



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