DKB has lamented the state of politics in African countries, criticising what he describes as the deceitful actions of ...

Here it is, as well, keep your eyes on the prize, Katanga, the Southern region of the Congo, home to the Shinkolobwe mine.

Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent armed conflict, ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese army, DW examines whether the military has the capacity to respond ...

When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997 ... Those involved were imprisoned, and Kabila’s son, Joseph Kabila, took power. The Second Congo War was ...

4. [iii] Experienced not least in defeating the American-backed Contra invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. [iv] Proxies like Joseph Mobutu of Zaire, Jonas Savimbi of UNITA and Holden Roberto of FNLA.

Dictators tend to be paranoid. and very common is that it includes family members. so they made a lot of money. and stop ...

By John Eligon Reporting from Johannesburg The African nation of Zaire was elated. Its president, Mobutu Sese Seko, had struck a deal in 1974 for the country to host potentially the biggest boxing ...

Blouin was there at the very center of this struggle, someone who became a thorn in the side of the Belgians and their Congolese neocolonial servants—for example, the notorious Joseph Mobutu ...