General Mobutu seized power in the Congo in 1960 with CIA backing after the Belgians abandoned their former colony. His first coup eliminated the Soviet-backed Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba ...

May this year will mark 28 years since the overthrow of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – or Zaire – longest-serving leader, Mobutu Sese Seko. The man who loved to be called “Mobutu ...