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 ...
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Young people gaze up at large photographs of Mobutu Sese Seko, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) national museum. A charismatic and outrageously ...
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. Soon he ...