Legacy of corrupt and ruthless dictator who built Versailles in the ...
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May 4, 1997 - Kinshasa (Reuter) - President Mobutu Sese Seko, one of Africa's longest-serving strongmen, now trying to negotiate a dignified exit from power, has ruled Zaire for more than three decades with a blend of military ruthlessness and political acumen.Suharto, Marcos and Mobutu head corruption table | World news | The ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/26/indonesia.philippines
Mar 26, 2004 - Mohammed Suharto, Ferdinand Marcos and Mobutu Sese Seko ripped off up to $50bn (£28bn) from the impoverished people of Indonesia, the Philippines and Zaire, anti-bribery campaigners said yesterday.Congo war exposes folly of western aid | World news | The Guardian
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Nov 27, 2012 - The legacy of Mobutu Sese Seko's 32-year corrupt kleptocracy remains the zeitgeist of its ruling class. The people must fend for themselves. Congo's potential, like most of Africa's, is immense and unmeasured. It has everything that the rest of the planet needs for the future; the highest reserves of mineral ...Anatomy of an Autocracy: Mobutu's 32-Year Reign
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May 17, 1997 - INSHASA, Zaire -- In more than three decades at the center of his country's political stage, Mobutu Sese Seko was nothing if not an extraordinary survivor. ... But his personal appetite for luxury and wealth spawned a system of official corruption so rapacious that he leaves behind a country in ruin, where ...Zaire: An African Horror Story - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1993/08/zaire-an-african.../305496/
Observers search for a suitable analogy—the next Bosnia, another Somalia—to the shaky, predatory despotism of Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku wa za Banga. ... Two years after that he fled to exile in Belgium, where he wrote a book exposing Mobutu's corruption. He later testified before a congressional subcommittee in ...Mobutu Sese Seko - The World's All-Time Most Corrupt Leaders - Forbes
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Head of GovernmentCountry/Term of Office: President of Zaire, 1965-97 Allegedly Embezzled: $5 billion GDP Per Capita: $99 Source:Transparency International, Global Corruption Report 2004.
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