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Mobutu Sese Seko
president of Zaire
Also known as: Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, Mobutu Sese Seko Koko Ngbendu Wa Za Banga
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Mobutu Sese Seko (born October 14, 1930, Lisala, Belgian Congo [now Democratic Republic of the Congo]—died September 7, 1997, Rabat, Morocco) was the president of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) who seized power in a 1965 coup and ruled for some 32 years before being ousted in a rebellion in 1997. Mobutu was educated in missionary schools and began his career in 1949 in the Belgian Congolese army, the Force Publique, rising from a clerk to a sergeant major, the highest rank then open to Africans. While still in the army, Mobutu contributed articles to newspapers in ...(100 of 788 words)