President Mobutu Sese Seko began what many believe is a final effort to prop up his faltering, war-torn regime Monday by officially ousting his prime minister. In his first action since returning from ...

Zaire’s dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, has long viewed his resource-rich African country as little more than a personal plantation, to be plundered, oppressed and consigned to misery. So while ...

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 ...

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Nzanga Mobutu stared out over the chocolate-brown sweep of the Congo river, and remembered his father. Mobutu Sese Seko was one of Africa's most reviled dictators. For 32 years he ruled the Democratic ...

Cabinet ministers decided on Thursday to extend the deadline for releasing the funds, worth SFr.7.7 million ($6.68 million). The old deadline would have expired on Thursday. The funds have been frozen ...