LONDON — “The evil that men do lives after them,” said Mark Anthony as he buried Julius Caesar; “the good is oft interred with their bones.” When the grand dictator of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko, dies, ...

RABAT, Morocco – Mobutu Sese Seko, shunned in death by the powers that once backed his despotic reign over Zaire, was buried Saturday in a private Roman Catholic ceremony outside the Moroccan capital.

THE UNITED STATES will not soon live down its long support of one of the world’s more brutal and venal dictators, Mobutu Sese Seko, who died Sunday, at age 66, while in exile in Morocco. None of the ...

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 first gunshot Philémon Efolote ­ever heard in Bandal, his Kinshasa neighbourhood, was at 5pm on Saturday May 17 1997. It was three days before the arrival of Laurent Kabila and his motley army of ...

Rabat - Twenty years on from his death in exile in Morocco, only the initials MSS mark the grave in Rabat as the resting place of Mobutu Sese Seko, the self-styled "King of Zaire". The late dictator ...

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 ...

Items belonging to Zaire's late dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, have brought in 180,000 Swiss francs ($100,000) at an auction in Switzerland. The 270 lots, which included furniture, paintings, vintage ...

Megalomania, extravagant spending, collaboration with the CIA… After the death of the former president of Zaire, Philippe Gaillard retraces his career for us. With implacable lucidity. Fallen from ...