Nana Akufo-Addo may not have reached the levels of infamy associated with Mobutu Sese Seko,however, the similarities in their ...

General Mobutu seized power in the Congo in 1960 with CIA backing after the Belgians abandoned their former colony. His first coup eliminated the Soviet-backed Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba ...

fought to rid the country of the dictatorial and corrupt rule of Mobutu Sese Seko. Civilians bore the brunt of the conflict as both sides resorted to extrajudicial executions and arbitrary ...

In her book, “In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz” Michela Wrong takes readers into a full-on immersion of Mobutu Sese Seko’s Zaire. One of the key things she shares is the conundrum that those ...

It also offered a glimpse of Congo, then called Zaire and in the grip of the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. As Congo marks the 50th anniversary of the Rumble on Wednesday, boxing dreams live on not ...