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 ...

After flying flags of Zaire, DR Congo's name under ex-dictator Mobutu Sese Seko who was overthrown in 1997, the group of men then filmed themselves proclaiming the end of the regime. The ...

Its president, Mobutu Sese Seko, had struck a deal in 1974 for the country to host potentially the biggest boxing contest in history: Muhammad Ali, a legend seemingly on the decline, versus George ...

That man was Mobutu Sese Seko, the despotic dictator who had seized ... Foreman was flattened as Ali’s second world title coronation was completed on the home soil of his ancestors.

Both men were paid up by Mobutu Sese Seko, the despotic dictator who had seized power of Zaire where the historic fight was held. Foreman was selected to be the face of the double-sided grill ...

played out under bizarre circumstances underwritten by Mobutu Sese Seko, the country’s autocratic leader, who wished to stage the greatest heavyweight contest possible. Mobutu opened his country ...

Carter wanted to negotiate a deal between the new Tutsi-led Rwandan government and Zaire’s dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, whose murderous misrule had made him a pariah. I trailed Carter through ...

as with former Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko’s son Kongulu Mobutu. Trump’s record is squarely in this tradition. During his first term, his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared ...

Of the "Big Men" who ruled Africa after independence, few were as notorious as Mobutu Sese Seko. During his 32 years in power, Mobutu renamed Congo as Zaire and stole many millions of dollars.

Mobutu Sese Seko, to hold Africa’s first ever heavyweight title fight. In actual fact, the narrative that would come to define the fight began 10 years prior. “You can’t just look at the ...