Munene gave a historical account of the Congo crisis, tracing it to the Berlin Conference of 1884, and argued that the country is “the source of both Pan-African agony and Pan-African consciousness”, ...

in eastern DRC. Methods of warfare were brutal, especially those employed by Rwandan soldiers and Tutsi groups. When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997.

May 1997: The fall of Mobutu The overthrow of Mobutu in 1997 ... last week was cancelled at the last minute. On the same day, DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul ...

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 ...

After being initially sentenced to death, the three had their sentences commuted, before being transferred to US custody.