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, ...

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 ...

The remains of Mobutu Sese Seko, one of Africa's most flamboyantly corrupt rulers, are to be repatriated to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, its president has announced. Mobutu, who ruled the ...

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 ...

Twenty years after he passed away, there is nothing in the capital of the former Zaire to remind visitors of Mobutu Sese Seko, the man famous for building big statues, bringing Muhammad Ali to ...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Young people gaze up at large photographs of Mobutu Sese Seko, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) national museum. A charismatic and outrageously ...

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 ...

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 ...