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.

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

On his way out. BY fin de régime standards, it was an elegant exit—if exit it was. Splendidly limousined as ever, President Mobutu Sese Seko swept off to the airport and a meeting of regional ...

President Mobutu Sese Seko began what many believe is a final effort to prop up his faltering, war-torn regime Monday by officially ousting his prime minister. In his first action since returning ...

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.

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