May this year will mark 28 years since the overthrow of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – or Zaire – longest-serving leader, Mobutu Sese Seko. The man who loved to be called “Mobutu ...

Two years later, he helped lead the revolt that toppled dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in Congo, then known as Zaire. He served briefly in Congo as head of the military under President Laurent Kabila ...

He was intent on reunifying Congo. Mobutu Sese Seko became president of Zaire (today’s DRC) after a coup in 1965. He nationalised UMHK a year later. Mobutu served as president for almost 32 ...

which was ruled at the time by Dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Kigali justified both efforts by arguing that Hutu groups in eastern DRC were still a threat to their Tutsi population and that the Mobutu ...

Na baada ya hapo, Makenga pamoja na Banyamulenge wengine waliomuunga mkono Kagame walijiunga na makundi mengine ya wanamgambo na kushirikiana na jeshi la Rwanda kumpindua Mobutu Sese Seko na ...

Former Air New Zealand employee Sese Vimahi was known in the criminal underground as “Preacher” — a reference to him being a “kurupt Churchie man [sic]”, as one co-defendant put it in a ...

Thiery Michel takes an in-depth look at the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko. A man of "modest roots" who had a Catholic upbringing, Mobutu was sent to the army by his father for insubordination.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the proliferation of criminal youth gangs is at an all-time high. The government has thereby made the death penalty part of its strategy to combat urban ...

when a Rwanda and Uganda-backed alliance overthrew the ageing autocrat Mobutu Sese Seko. "Our objective is neither Goma nor Bukavu but Kinshasa, the source of all the problems," he told Reuters in ...

After more than 30 years of dictatorship under the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko, the country, then renamed Zaire, fell into two successive conflicts – the “first” (1996-1997) and the “second” (1998-2003) ...

The corrupt Mobutu Sese Seko took over in 1965 and ruled until 1997, adding greatly to the misery and suffering of the people of a country with fabulous mineral wealth. The DRC not only has enormous ...

The conflict in the Congo must be contained to enable the continent to move forward. Historically, the first emergence of civil unrest in the Congo can be traced back to 1996-1997. However ...