Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire’s president for the last 27 years, is so hated by his people that he hardly ever dares set foot in his own capital. So the scene outside parliament earlier this ...

FILE - Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko, center, raises the arms of heavyweight champion George Foreman, left, and Muhammad Ali, right, in Kinshasa, Zaire, Sept. 22, 1974.

President Mobutu Sese Seko on Saturday stood defiantly on his mansion patio with his new military prime minister and dismissed the legitimacy of the popular rebellion washing over his corrupt 31 ...

Mobutu Sese Seko overthrew the nationalist leader Patrice Lumumba in the early 1960’s. His rule, which lasted until 1997, was know for vast corruption and tyranny.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- The remains of Mobutu Sese Seko, one of Africa's more flashy corrupt rulers, will be repatriated to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the DRC president said.

Mobutu Sese Seko was president of what was then Zaire from 1965 until 1997. His regime was marked by human rights abuses, ethnic bloodshed and corruption. He pillaged state funds for more than 30 ...

And, most extraordinarily, they’re there when she tells me about her larger-than-life father, William Taliaferro Close, who spent years in Congo, at one point as Congolese leader Mobutu Sese ...

For Mobutu, it was – perhaps even more importantly ... A portrait of President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko is seen at the stadium in Kinshasa during the fight. AFP via Getty Images.

In many ways, Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle didn’t start on this day 50 years ago at 4:30 a.m. local time (10:30 p.m. ET). Nor did it start seven weeks prior when ...