Twenty years after he passed away, there is nothing in the capital of the former Zaire to remind visitors of Mobutu Sese Seko, the man famous for building big statues, bringing Muhammad Ali to ...

Nostalgia is rising in Congo for Mobutu Sese Seko — the kleptocratic strongman as a new museum exhibit glorifying him draws crowds in Kinshasa. In DR Congo, exhibit reveals nostalgia for former ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- The remains of Mobutu Sese Seko, one of Africa's more flashy corrupt rulers, will be repatriated to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the DRC president said. President ...

The remains of Mobutu Sese Seko, one of Africa's most flamboyantly corrupt rulers, are to be repatriated to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, its president has announced. Mobutu, who ruled the ...

Mobutu Sese Seko ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than three decades as a dictator who plundered the country's vast mineral wealth while propped up by the West. But 30 years after his ...

The nine years Olela Shungu spent as the dictator’s personal interpreter often took him to Gbadolite, a decadent palace in a remote part of northern DRC dubbed ‘Versailles in the Jungle’ “Yes, I’m ...

For the first time in ten months, the Congo’s fledgling Parliament reassembled last week in Lovanium University’s handsome modern auditorium. Isolated from outside influences by an electrified ...