This remarkable film charts the humble origins and rise to power of one of Africa's most notorious dictators, Zaire's President Mobutu. Beginning life as a cook's son, he went on to become a lowly ...

Half a century ago, the “Rumble in the Jungle” became not just a fight between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, but a ...

This was where President Mobutu blew hundreds of millions of pounds of his country’s money, building and running palace complexes in the second half of his three decades of rule, when he was one ...

An exhausted, punched-out Foreman was KO’d by Ali in the eighth round of that fight, his most famous bout. To recount, former Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko desperately wanted to stage Foreman-Ali ...

Completing these exceptional documents, are more than 50 hours of interviews with those close to the former president and the ... styled leader - the dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, "King of Zaïre".

When ex-convict kidnapped former Congolese premier Moise Tshombe and took him to Algeria, current Congolese President Joseph Mobutu told the United Nations that Tshombe had been plotting a ...