Retired Brigadier General Peter Sereko said the South African National Defence Force’s ability to carry out its peacekeeping ...

ON 2 MAY 1996, a Central Bureau of Investigation team in Madras arrested the astrologer and mystic Nemichand Jain—popularly ...

The tipping point for him came in 1980, when the longtime autocratic ruler of what was then called Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko, asked him ... Mr. Mudimbe is survived by his sons, Daniel and Claude ...

"Mobutu Sese Seko, Jonas Savimbi ... decay of an economy while a new class of obscenely wealthy black elites - sons and daughters of liberation struggle sellouts - enjoy the spoils of our blood ...

KINSHASA, 18 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - Congolese President Joseph Kabila, who faces Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba in a second-round presidential poll, has agreed to include one of the sons of late ...

ShareWith another humanitarian crisis confronting the world in the Democratic Republic Congo, it is time for concrete action ...

Contemporary misfortunes can be traced to brutal colonial exploitation by King Leopold II of Belgium, as well as the corrupt regime of Mobutu Sese Seko and subsequent Congo wars. The March 23 Movement ...

Historical examples such as Idi Amin in Uganda and Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire stand as grim reminders of this model’s consequences. The big man legacy is not just surviving, it is being actively ...