Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-1997) was the second president of the Congo (at one time called Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo), taking office in late 1965.Mobutu Sese Seko was born J...
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Fighting broke out in eastern Congo Wednesday between government troops and forces loyal to a dissident general, killing at least 19 people, a U.N. official said.The largely ungoverned region has b...
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Kinshasa/Nairobi (dpa) - With historic elections behind it and the
world's largest peacekeeping force at its disposal, the Democratic
Republic of Congo is unlikely to descen...
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Jakarta (dpa) - A lawyer for former Indonesian president Suharto
expressed surprise over United Nations claims that branded the
ex-dictator as the world's worst political cr...
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Nairobi/Kinshasa (dpa) - Hutu rebels in eastern Congo have been
working alongside the national military to flush out militias linked
to renegade general Laurent Nkunda, whos...
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Kampala (dpa) - Uganda said Saturday that it has beefed up it
forces on its south-western border with the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC) in readiness for a spill-over of...
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Nairobi (dpa) - War, disease and malnutrition have killed an
estimated 5.4 million people in Congo since 1998, the highest
conflict-related death toll since World War Two, a...
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Some of Bill Richardson's foreign policy efforts:December 1984: Led a delegation to nine Latin American countries shortly after being elected chairman of the congressional Hispanic Caucus.Late 1988...
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Cardinal Frederic Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Congo's top Roman Catholic prelate who warned of what he called international meddling in the country's recent landmark elections, has died in a Belgian ho...
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Some of Bill Richardson's diplomatic efforts:Late 1988: Traveled to Angola to meet with rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who was fighting against the Marxist government.August 1993: Traveled to Myanmar ...
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On his first official visit to Africa as the United Nation's secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon toured this war-torn capital Saturday, praising its people for holding their first elections and ushering...
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Mobutu Sese Seko
Fighting re-erupts in Congo, killing 19
