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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration is considering seizure of the vast personal fortune of Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko to force him to surrender power in the mineral-rich central African ...

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 ...