Between 1996 and 2003 Rwanda and other regional powers fought over the spoils left by the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko, who misruled Congo, which he renamed Zaire, from 1965 until 1997.

when a Rwanda and Uganda-backed alliance overthrew the ageing autocrat Mobutu Sese Seko. "Our objective is neither Goma nor Bukavu but Kinshasa, the source of all the problems," he told Reuters in ...

when a Rwanda and Uganda-backed alliance overthrew the ageing autocrat Mobutu Sese Seko. Our objective is neither Goma nor Bukavu but Kinshasa, the source of all the problems," he told Reuters in an ...

DR Congo's long-time leader Mobutu Sese Seko oversaw their construction in the 1970s and 1980s, but by the end of the century, both dams were dilapidated due to a lack of funding for their ...

which was ruled at the time by Dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Kigali justified both efforts by arguing that Hutu groups in eastern DRC were still a threat to their Tutsi population and that the Mobutu ...

Feb 14 (Reuters) - Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards ...

Thiery Michel takes an in-depth look at the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko. A man of "modest roots" who had a Catholic upbringing, Mobutu was sent to the army by his father for insubordination.

Engaging in theft on the grandest scale, some of the world's most corrupt modern leaders have shamelessly looted their nations' treasuries to fund a life of luxury while their impoverished citizens ...

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. “There are no more places for the dead,” says Marie Kavira-Nvungi, a nurse at a hospital in Goma, the largest ...

After more than 30 years of dictatorship under the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko, the country, then renamed Zaire, fell into two successive conflicts – the “first” (1996-1997) and the “second” (1998-2003) ...