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 ...

With a wave of his silver-tipped cane and a nod of his leopardskin hat, the man known as “The Guide” and “The Great Helmsman” returned Tuesday to the rousing cheers and rising fears of his people.

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — 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 ...

The 35-million people he rules have been mad at him for the past 26 years. And the rest of the world finally seems to agree it's time the tyrant bows out. But the man known as "the all-conquering ...

On January 21, I posted a short bio of Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko on Facebook. Ten days later, an old friend from my active journalism days sent it to me via WhatsApp. Know what? It had gone viral and ...

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 ...

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 ...