President Mobutu Sese Seko flew to nearby Gabon on Wednesday for a regional summit as suspense deepened as to whether the man who has held power longer than any current African ruler plans to ever ...

An illustration of former Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) President Mobutu Sese Seko, at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Gombe commune in Kinshasa (Arsene Mpiana | AFP via Getty Images) ...

President Mobutu Sese Seko left Zaire today for a mini-summit in Gabon as reports emerged of a heavy civilian death toll in a battle on the road to his capital, Kinshasa. Residents and other sources ...

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 ...

Unlike the passing of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa, that of Mobutu Sese Seko, late of Zaire, will not be mourned around the world. Especially not by me. I spent 10 terrifying days in 1983 detained ...

KINSHASA, Zaire — From his plush 15th-floor hotel suite, far above the broad Congo River, Mukalay Msungu Banza juggled three cellular phones, taking calls from an ambassador, a government minister and ...

The African nation of Zaire has been bathed in blood for years at the hands of a merciless dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, and now of a ruthless rebel leader who wants to replace him. Although Mr.

President Mobutu Sese Seko notched up 30 years in power in Zaire on Friday, still in control of his chaotic central African country despite attempts from home and abroad over the years to loosen his ...

Outside the U.S. Embassy, a small group of protesters gathered this month to burn the American flag, demand expulsion of the American ambassador and condemn the U.S. as an enemy at war with Zaire. Not ...

Young people gaze up at large photographs of Mobutu Sese Seko, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) national museum. A charismatic and outrageously corrupt former dictator, Mobutu seized power ...