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 ...

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 ...

Marcos’s Philippines, Mobutu Sese Seko’s Zaire, Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt and numerous military regimes across Latin America. These tensions have not disappeared. But over nearly five decades ...

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 ...

“We have seen this with the previous presidents such as Mobutu Sese Seko, Laurent and his son Joseph Kabila. There is also a flawed democratic system which leaves democracy in a shallow state with ...

As early as 1973, the president of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC), Mobutu Sese Seko, was the first to speak at the United Nations General Assembly, calling for the country ...

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 ...