Congo's ex-election chief turned rebel boss builds insurgency
In 2018, Corneille Nangaa orchestrated the heavily criticised vote that handed President Felix Tshisekedi power. Today, he is ...
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How Akufo-Addo Nearly Became Ghana's Modern-Day Mobutu Sese Seko
Nana Akufo-Addo may not have reached the levels of infamy associated with Mobutu Sese Seko,however, the similarities in their ...
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Mobutu Sese Seko
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 ...
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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 ...
Die-Hard Trumper Paul Manafort Looks to Revive Dead Career After Prison
Paul Manafort, the Republican consultant and felon who President-elect Donald Trump pardoned in 2020, put together a team of Trump 2024 advisers to try and drum up business advising far-right parties ...
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Grand corruption leaves Uganda’s future uncertain
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 ...