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“He passed by like a meteor,” his daughter Juliana said ... to have stopped a Communist takeover in its tracks and, in Joseph Mobutu (who later called himself Mobutu Sese Seko), installed a friendly ...
where his father based his rebellion to topple dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. When the family was pursued by Mobutu's forces, the young Joseph went into exile in Tanzania at the age of five, and in 1996 ...
Both unions eventually soured, but gave her two children, a daughter and a son ... America’s CIA recruited a young army colonel, Joseph-Désiré Mobutu (later Mobutu Sese Seko), who soon ousted Lumumba ...
Beset by personal tragedies – including the suicide of his son, the loss of many of his research notes and manuscripts in a flood and the arrest of his daughter ... Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire ...
He knew a number of colorful national leaders, including Rafic Hariri of Lebanon, Aslan Abashidze of Adjara, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire ... Tucker and Buckley, his daughter-in-law Susie, and ...
Blouin’s daughter Eve spent the last 30 odd years reclaiming the ... including head of state security under Mobutu Sese Seko. Activist Andrée Blouin and Congolese politician Pierre Mulélé with another ...
Close’s daughter, Annie Starke ... was a doctor who served as the personal physician to Mobutu Sese Seko, the dictator of the Belgian Congo. Close has a diverse real estate portfolio ...
Daughter Juliana Lumumba is convinced that the UN ... His one-party state, led by the MPR party, is a hollow shell, increasingly serving the one leader. Mobutu Sese Seko, ‘the eternal one, who will ...
But if you’re interested in naming your daughter after a city ... from 1971 to 1997 under the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko. It was located in Central Africa, bordered by Angola to the southwest ...
Authoritarian leaders do not lack negative character traits — most of them are insecure, obsessed with revenge, vain and brutal. But many are family men, in their own fashion. Relatives often ...