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 month, ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time in ten months, the Congo’s fledgling Parliament reassembled last week in Lovanium University’s handsome modern auditorium. Isolated from outside influences by an electrified ...

2003-02-23T22:08:50-05:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...

The mob was organized by President Joseph Mobutu’s Mouvement Populaire Revolutionnaire, the only legal political party in the Congo. Outside the Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, it began to work up quite ...

Mobutu Sese Seko ruled DR Congo, then Zaire, for more than 30 years The Democratic Republic of Congo's government will repatriate the body of ex-ruler Mobutu Sese Seko in agreement with his family, ...

Images captured by Agence France-Presse (AFP) photographer John Wessel's show the ruins of one of Africa's most famous dictators – President Mobutu Sese Seko. Labelled "Versailles of the Jungle" by ...

ZAIRE'S President Mobutu yesterday slipped out of his capital, Kinshasa, ending three decades of highly personalised rule. ''The president reigns but he does not govern,'' a statement said, ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's government will repatriate the body of ex-ruler Mobutu Sese Seko in agreement with his family, President Joseph Kabila has said. Mr Mobutu is buried in Morocco, ...