Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga, often shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or Mobutu and also known by his initials MSS, was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the 1st and only ...

The capture of Lubumbashi took place in April 1997, during the First Congo War in southern Zaire. The rebels of the Alliance des forces démocratiques pour la libération du Congo (AFDL) took the city ...

This is why I link his era to that of Mobutu. Generations have changed since Mobutu Sese Seko was ousted in Zaire, the former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Mobutu ruled from ...

The appeal process following a trial in which 37 people were sentenced to death over what the army said was a failed coup bid began on Thursday, an AFP journalist saw.

Flag football is a variant of American football (or gridiron) where the aim is to advance up the pitch via a series of offensive plays into the opposition’s defensive endzone. It is a no-contact sport ...

Rather than eradicating democratic institutions as leaders like Chile’s Augusto Pinochet or Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko did in the past, today’s established and emergent autocrats (as is the ca ...

These one and only interim sages carved out of very soft wood include the likes of Yayyah Jammeh in the Gambia, “wiser-than-God” Mobutu, Sese Seko of Zaire, eternal Paul Biya in neighboring Cameroun .

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

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One of the most confusing and similar flags are the Irish flag and Ivory Coast flag. However, there are some pretty different meanings behind the flag colors and design, despite both having three ...