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 ...

On June 27th the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo stood smiling in the Oval Office next to ...

President Mobutu Sese Seko on Saturday stood defiantly on his mansion patio with his new military prime minister and dismissed the legitimacy of the popular rebellion washing over his corrupt 31 ...

Mobutu Sese Seko, who died in 1997, ruled what today is the Democratic Republic of Congo with an iron fist for 32 years. Mobutu Sese Seko, who died in 1997, ...

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.

Mobutu Sese Seko fled DR Congo as rebels, led by Mr Kabila's father Laurent Kabila, advanced on the capital, Kinshasa, in 1997. His critics accused him of being a ruthless and corrupt ruler who ...

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 ...