A prominent Liberian academic, Professor Joseph Saye-Guannue, says the most influential African is a man who has been largely unpopular in much of Africa, Mobutu Sese-Seko, the former leader of Zaire, ...

Rabat - Twenty years on from his death in exile in Morocco, only the initials MSS mark the grave in Rabat as the resting place of Mobutu Sese Seko, the self-styled "King of Zaire". The late dictator ...

Though at midweek there were reports from well to the east of serious resistance—or was it just serious massacre, most of the 300 reported dead being civilians?—few doubted that Mr Kabila's men were ...

In Gbadolite, in the tropical forests of northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), women in bright cotton dresses and high heels saunter along to the sound of soukouss music. But, like the rest of ...