Time

CONGO: The Embassy Firefight

In Léopoldville one long, hot day last week, the simmering conflict between the U.N. Command and Congolese Military Strongman Colonel Joseph Mobutu finally reached a showdown. In the morning, as two ...
Time

CONGO: The Three-Headed State

In a yellow plaster house with a red tin roof on the outskirts of Leopoldville, Colonel Joseph Mobutu, 29, bit his fingernails, answered the telephone, coped with a stream of visitors, and tried to ...
Mother Jones

Steal This Country

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. 1482 Portuguese explorers arrive at mouth of Congo River, find well-developed African ...
The Harvard Crimson

Tshombe: A Bit Better Alive Than Dead

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 military ...
Publishers Weekly

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MR. KURTZ: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

The beauty of this book is that it makes sense of chaos. For the past few decades, the Congo, one of Africa's richest countries in natural resources, has been in an economic decline that has resulted ...
Boxing Scene

The Unusual Men To Whom Ali Paid Homage

In September 1960, the very same month Ali won his Olympic gold in Rome, Joseph Mobutu staged a coup in the Congo and placed elected President Patrice Lumumba under house arrest. In November, Lumumba ...
CNN

The roots of Zaire's unrest

(CNN) -- Imagine being mugged as you walk down a street. But you can't turn to the authorities for protection because -- chances are -- they are the muggers. Now, imagine an entire country of 45 ...