Mobutu Sese Seko ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than three decades as a dictator who plundered the country's ...

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 month, ...

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 ...

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. President ...

In 1974, the Congo’s grand dictator completed his “Africanisation” of the Congo by renaming it Zaire. He discarded his birth name and crowned himself Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga — “the ...

Mobutu ruled DRC from 1965 to 1971, and later Zaire from 1971 to 1997. A woman, Mpanda Mbelu Wa Mutobodji has called on the Nigerian government to curtail the worsening insecurity before it becomes a ...

Zaire’s dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, has long viewed his resource-rich African country as little more than a personal plantation, to be plundered, oppressed and consigned to misery. So while ...

When Mobutu Sese Seko took over the Congo (which he later renamed Zaire) in 1965, he inherited about 5,000 miles of paved roads left by the heinous Belgian colonists. When he fled the country in the ...

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 ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's government will repatriate the body of ex-ruler Mobutu Sese Seko in agreement with his family, President Joseph Kabila has said. Mr Mobutu is buried in Morocco, ...