With no serious institutions in the form of legislature, judiciary, the opposition, or civil society to check his power, Mobutu presided over a “stable” Zaire for three uninterrupted decades ...

The rebel leader whose fighters have captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has vowed to ...

Corneille Nangaa is the public face of a sprawling coalition of Congolese politicians and rebel groups fighting to oust ...

General Mobutu seized power in the Congo in 1960 with CIA backing after the Belgians abandoned their former colony. His first coup eliminated the Soviet-backed Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba ...

fought to rid the country of the dictatorial and corrupt rule of Mobutu Sese Seko. Civilians bore the brunt of the conflict as both sides resorted to extrajudicial executions and arbitrary ...

Conservative estimates suggest the M23 rebels control approximately 43 per cent of North ...

In her book, “In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz” Michela Wrong takes readers into a full-on immersion of Mobutu Sese Seko’s Zaire. One of the key things she shares is the conundrum that those ...