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Mobutu Sese Seko ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than three decades as a dictator who plundered the country's vast mineral wealth while propped up by the West. But 30 years after his ...

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 ...

Twenty years after he passed away, there is nothing in the capital of the former Zaire to remind visitors of Mobutu Sese Seko, the man famous for building big statues, bringing Muhammad Ali to ...

It didn’t take long for Congo’s transition from Belgian colony to sovereign state to turn ugly. Both the Soviet Union and the United States were keeping a close eye on the mineral-rich country at the ...

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