She noted that Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime, though facing reputational damage in Western circles ... installed the Western-backed dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, whose 32-year kleptocratic ...

This time they might wait, using it as a bargaining chip, for if Goma fell, it would damage Tshisekedi ... helped overthrow the corrupt dictator Mobutu Sese Seko over 2,000 kilometres away ...

This time they might wait, using it as a bargaining chip, for if Goma fell, it would damage Tshisekedi’s political credibility ... helped overthrow the corrupt dictator Mobutu Sese Seko over 2,000 ...

which was ruled at the time by Dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Kigali justified both efforts by arguing that Hutu groups in eastern DRC were still a threat to their Tutsi population and that the Mobutu ...

Between 1996 and 2003 Rwanda and other regional powers fought over the spoils left by the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko, who misruled Congo, which he renamed Zaire, from 1965 until 1997.

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 ...

In 1997, he was part of the Rwanda-backed forces who ended up seizing power in DR Congo, ousting long-serving ruler Mobutu Sese Seko. In his place they installed veteran Congolese rebel leader ...

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 an ...

DR Congo's long-time leader Mobutu Sese Seko oversaw their construction in the 1970s and 1980s, but by the end of the century, both dams were dilapidated due to a lack of funding for their ...

1996-1997: Rwanda invaded Zaire and backed the rebellion that eventually led to the overthrow of the country’s longtime kleptocratic leader, Mobutu Sese Seko. An opposition leader, Laurent ...