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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Congolese military and political leader. Mobutu overthrew the existing government of the Congo in 1965, established himself as president in 1967, and renamed the country Zaire in 1971. He died shortly after being ousted from the presidency by political insurgents in 1997.
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Building on a corrupt tradition dating back to the colonial era, the man now known as Mobutu Sese Seko has parlayed extravagant tastes and a gift for plunder into a fortune estimated by U.S.
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Our record of shoring up some of the nastiest tyrants of the last 50 years -- the Duvaliers in Haiti, the Shah of Iran, Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire, Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua and Saddam Hussein in Iraq -- does not.
Milburn Line: Don't Downsize Democracy -- Here or Abroad Milburn Line 2011
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A century of brutal colonial rule, followed by three decades of equally brutal rule by military leader Mobutu Sese Seko decimated this country, leaving it with a broken economy, and decaying infrastructure.
Opportunity International Says Microfinancing Blooming in Congo 2011
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The war in Congo—a hollowed-out state that has known little but slavery, colonialism and dictatorship for four centuries—started not as a civil war but, Mr. Stearns notes, as "a regional war, pitting a new generation of young visionary African leaders against Mobutu Sese Seko, the continent's dinosaur."
The Triumph of Fear Douglas Rogers 2011
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Congo's presidential vote is the second since the 2001 assassination of revolutionary Laurent-Désiré Kabila, who overthrew strongman Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997.
Congo Strife Rises After Poll Solomon Moore 2011
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Mr. Kabila is the son of Laurent-Désiré Kabila, who overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko and then went on to rule the country for four years before his assassination, when he was succeeded by Joseph Kabila.
Violence Hits Congo Elections Solomon Moore 2011
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For 32 years, with the backing of Western allies, the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko plundered his own state and pitted ethnic communities against one another through cynical divide-and-rule policies.
Digging for the Truth About a Dirty Trade Jason Stearns 2011
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Another spurt of interest in the whereabouts of dictators' loot occurred in the late 1990s after the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the sudden death of Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha.
Ibrahim Warde: From Marcos to Gaddafi: Kleptocrats, Old and New Ibrahim Warde 2011
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The other involved money deposited by Mobutu Sese Seko, former president of Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo, who died in 1997.
Tracking Assets in the Arab Spring Deborah Ball 2011
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Another spurt of interest in the whereabouts of dictators' loot occurred in the late 1990s after the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the sudden death of Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha.
Ibrahim Warde: From Marcos to Gaddafi: Kleptocrats, Old and New Ibrahim Warde 2011
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