It is all fairly quiet at the main intersection along the Boulevard Mobutu Sese Seko in Gbadolite. This was the home town of the man who ruled what was then Zaire for 30 years and he squandered vast ...

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 ...

Mobutu built Gbadolite into a luxurious town often nicknamed “Versailles of the Jungle”. He built a hydroelectric dam on the nearby Ubangi River in Mobayi Mbongo, an international airport, Gbadolite ...

GBADOLITE, Congo — Like its former master, this city of jungle palaces has died. The dinner parties, drenched in pink champagne and filled with shady millionaires, are no more. The fake Louis XIV ...

From last week, continues the author’s narrative of his journey of discovery when in 1982 he accompanied Dr Joseph Wayas, a former Senate president, to Gbadolite in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

More than 20 years after the fall of the charismatic Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled the vast African country with an iron fist from 1965 to 1997, many Congolese look back fondly on the ...

Closest airports to Gbadolite, Democratic Republic Of The Congo are listed below. These are major airports close to the city of Gbadolite and other airports closest to Gbadolite Airport. This page ...

(JED/IFEX) – The following is an abridged version of JED’s 18 February 2003 letter to Vital Kamhere, commissioner-general in charge of the peace process in the Great Lakes region: Kinshasa, 18 ...

A STAMPEDE broke out at Gbadolite Airport on Friday as soldiers of The Congolese Liberation Movement (MLC) fought hard to bar wives of departing UPDF soldiers from boarding the plane withdrawing the ...

Gbadolite and Yamoussoukro got transformed by the power of the PRESIDENCY. Now the two towns are like ghost towns. What is happening to the two towns now is a clear example of the futility and vanity ...