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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A Swiss court has ruled that the assets of Mobutu Sese Seko, former leader of Zaire, now the DR Congo, who died in 1997, be returned to his family. The court rejected an appeal to extend a freeze on ...

The late Zairean leader Mobutu Sese Seko was known to have been very rich at a time when his countrymen were wallowing in poverty. The northern DR Congo jungle now encroaches on a palace built by ...

The five-hectare estate in Savigny, east of Lausanne, was impounded by Swiss authorities in May 1997 as part of a general freeze on Mobutu’s assets. The Justice Ministry had hoped that proceeds ...