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 ...

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 ...

President Mobutu Sese Seko on Saturday stood defiantly on his mansion patio with his new military prime minister and dismissed the legitimacy of the popular rebellion washing over his corrupt 31-year ...

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 ...