The Rwandan genocidal militia known as FDLR that is operating in DR Congo remains a major contentious issue in the conflict between Kinshasa and Kigali. Congolese authorities allege that this ...

Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first prime minister after independence in 1960, was sharply critical of the Belgian monarchy’s colonial history. The statue of Leopold in Kinshasa was pulled down by Mobutu ...

He was a revolutionary and a national hero whose assassination shocked the world. The Democratic Republic of Congo on ...

They killed Kwame Nkrumah after a sponsoring a coup in 1966. \xa0They killed Patrice Lumumba and allowed Mobutu Sese Seko to destroy Congo.

China’s Stranglehold, From Pit to Processing That’s easier said than done. For three decades until the 1990s, the US supported dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.

Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso and Gyansigbe Eyademan of Togo, among others fit this description. Besides, if any leader realizes the need to care about Africa’s ...

Sanctioned by the West, welcomed in Niamey, the seat of power in Niger, Kamlesh Pattni – seen by some as the master of deceit with unmatched survival instincts – raises eyebrows whenever his name is ...

Armed men then went to a building housing Tshisekedi’s offices waving flags of Zaire, the country’s name under ex-dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who was overthrown in 1997.

They were funded by the Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir, to be pawns in regional mischief-making. Clashes with Ugandan troops then forced the ADF over the border into ...

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st century.

Recent events in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with the fall of North Kivu’s capital, Goma, as a provisional low, are inscribed in a decades-long evolution. The extreme weakness ...

Her father, William Close, was a doctor who served as the personal physician to Mobutu Sese Seko, the dictator of the Belgian Congo. Savvy Real Estate And Business Moves ...