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 ...

Now in its 38th edition, Art Brussels - one of Europe’s oldest and most established art fairs - maintains its reputation as a discovery fair and reveals details of the artistic presentations by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 AFDL, composed of Tutsi militias from across East Africa, aimed to overthrow Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. After the overthrow of Sese Seko, Laurent-Désiré Kabila took over in Congo, with ...

A secessionist movement in Katanga and a coup by Mobutu Sese Seko in 1965 led to a dictatorship that lasted until 1997. The 1994 Rwandan genocide saw over 2 million Rwandan Hutus (including ...

The CIA orchestrated the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in 1961, the DRC’s first prime minister, and backed Mobutu Sese Seko’s brutal regime for decades. When Mobutu fell out of favour in ...

Feb 14 (Reuters) - Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards ...

which culminated in the assassination of popular leader Patrice Lumumba and the three-decade military rule under dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Ethnic tensions in Rwanda forced more than 300,000 ...