Kinshasa - The late Zairian dictator Mobutu Sese Seko claimed in a last letter to France's President Jacques Chirac published here on Thursday that the United States and Britain had stabbed him in the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will mark 57 years of independence on Friday, 30 June. This year also marks the 20th anniversary of Mobutu Sese Seko’s fall from power in 1997. The DRC is ...

Historical examples such as Idi Amin in Uganda and Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire stand as grim reminders of this model’s consequences. The big man legacy is not just surviving, it is being actively ...

Contemporary misfortunes can be traced to brutal colonial exploitation by King Leopold II of Belgium, as well as the corrupt regime of Mobutu Sese Seko and subsequent Congo wars. The March 23 Movement ...

1988 A US report says nicotine is as addictive as heroin and cocaine. 1997 Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire for about 30 years, looting billions of dollars, flees rebels. Laurent Kabila becomes ...

On this date in history: In 1804, the French Senate declared Napoleon Bonaparte emperor. In 1871, U.S. Marines landed in Korea in an attempt to open the country to foreign trade. In 1920, Joan of ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Laurent-Désiré Kabila rose to power after deposing the infamous Mobutu Sese Seko. Hailed as a reformer, he quickly silenced dissent, suspended democratic ...

Starting his professional career as a 30-year-old diplomat in the Zaire (now DRC) of the kleptocrat Mobutu Sese Seko in 1981, and concluding it in 2016 at the age of 65, (as the Swiss Ambassador ...

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 ...