President Mobutu Sese Seko flew to nearby Gabon on Wednesday for a regional summit as suspense deepened as to whether the man who has held power longer than any current African ruler plans to ever ...

An illustration of former Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) President Mobutu Sese Seko, at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Gombe commune in Kinshasa (Arsene Mpiana | AFP via Getty Images) ...

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 ...

Nostalgia is rising in Congo for Mobutu Sese Seko — the kleptocratic strongman as a new museum exhibit glorifying him draws crowds in Kinshasa. In DR Congo, exhibit reveals nostalgia for former ...