Like a vast historical puzzle, this film pieces together the tragic history of a country, and its self-styled leader - the dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, "King of Zaïre".

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Within the exhibit are pieces such as a 2018 photograph by Gosette Lubondo. In it, the photographer’s subject is a Congolese ...

In Zaire, for example, Mobuto Sese Seko embezzled an estimated $5 billion dollars during his 32-year presidency — this in a country where the per capita GNP in 2001 was $99. "Accountability" and ...

the armed men also went to a building housing President Felix Tshisekedi's offices brandishing flags of Zaire, the country's name under ex-dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who was overthrown in 1997.

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 ...

(Bloomberg) -- The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government said it had killed the leader of an attempted coup and arrested ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo military thwarted an 'attempted coup' led by a US national and his 40-strong militia to overthrow the country's government. The plot was led by Christian ...

Governor Maura Healey announced that state and national flags will fly at half-staff in Massachusetts on Friday, Sept. 27 to honor Pvt. Kwack K. Woo of Los Angeles, California. Pvt. Woo served in ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...