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

Five years later, he played a role in helping Mobutu Sese Seko - the authoritarian leader who seized power in 1965 - gain control in a military coup.

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Mobutu Sese Seko ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than three decades as a dictator who plundered the country's vast mineral wealth while propped up by the West.

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Raised under Mobutu Sese Seko’s U.S.-backed regime in what became Zaire and later educated in America and Europe, he was keenly aware of how Orwell’s legacy had been co-opted, from the CIA’s funding of the 1954 animated “Animal Farm” to the deployment of his books as Cold War propaganda.

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Most people forget the match was staged in the same stadium where the country’s dictatorial president, Mobutu Sese Seko, detained political prisoners.

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In the early 1970s, then-President Mobutu Sese Seko granted citizenship to anyone who had originated from Rwanda or Burundi, provided they were present on Congolese territory before 1960.

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