Having seized power in a coup of 1965, President Mobutu, along with the event’s organizers, saw the bout as an opportunity to promote Africa, and Zaire specifically. The fight was pitched as a ...

To royal watchers, state visits appear to be filled with pomp, ceremony and plenty of sparkling tiaras. But bringing world leaders and the Royal Family together doesn't always go quite so well, as ...

When Mobutu Sese Seko, late president of Zaire, was at the height of his powers, he decreed his citizens should no longer wear Western jackets and ties. As part of a great return to African values, ...

GBADOLITE, Congo — Like its former master, this city of jungle palaces has died. The dinner parties, drenched in pink champagne and filled with shady millionaires, are no more. The fake Louis ...

Mukendi is a fugitive but not from any law. The businessman has been on the lam since he was tortured by President Mobutu Sese Seko’s secret police for complaining to a court that other security ...

Moving to preserve the power that is rapidly slipping away from him, President Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire's longtime dictator, declared a state of emergency throughout the country on Tuesday, ...

The mob was organized by President Joseph Mobutu’s Mouvement Populaire Revolutionnaire, the only legal political party in the Congo. Outside the Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, it began to work up ...

Congo President Joseph Mobutu last week nationalized the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, the Belgian company that provided a living for 100,000 Congolese, accounted for about one-half of the ...

France conducted a covert military operation to prop up Zairian leader Mobutu Sese Seko as rebels advanced across the country, according to U.S. intelligence reports and other sources. The ...