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 ...

Nana Akufo-Addo may not have reached the levels of infamy associated with Mobutu Sese Seko,however, the similarities in their governance styles are alarming. To jog your memory, Mobutu Sese Seko, the ...

Former presidential advisor who served under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) was reportedly seen begging on the streets of Kinshasa in 2020. This ...

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 ...

Carter wanted to negotiate a deal between the new Tutsi-led Rwandan government and Zaire’s dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, whose murderous misrule had made him a pariah. I trailed Carter through ...

The International Energy Agency highlights the urgent need for the Grand Inga Dam, as nearly 600 million people in ...

when a Rwanda and Uganda-backed alliance overthrew the ageing autocrat Mobutu Sese Seko. "Our objective is neither Goma nor Bukavu but Kinshasa, the source of all the problems," he told Reuters in ...