Mobutu Sese Seko

[ moh-boo-too ses-ey sek-oh, muh- ]

noun

1. Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, 1930–97, Zairian political leader: president 1965–97.
2. Lake Mobutu Sese Seko, official name of Lake Albert.

Example Sentences

Two years after the genocide, Rwanda and Uganda invaded eastern Congo to try and root out what remained of those genocide perpetrators, which led to the toppling of then Congo President Mobutu Sese Seko.

From Seattle Times

They stayed there until 1985, when Étienne Tshisekedi's long-time rival, autocratic leader Mobutu Sese Seko, allowed the mother and children to leave.

From BBC

The Congolese people have voiced their difficulties in a way unthinkable under the authoritarian regimes of Mobutu Sese Seko and Joseph Kabila.

From Washington Times

In the late 1970s, Mobutu Sese Seko - the-then ruler of Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo - paid the country's biggest star Franco - the Sorcerer of the Guitar - and his TPO OK Jazz band to perform at huge propaganda concerts.

From BBC

During the dark days of the Cold War, the UK and the United States helped prop up a number of dictators in return for their loyalty, from Daniel arap Moi in Kenya to Mobutu Sese Seko in what was then Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From BBC