The earnest Colonel (now Major General) Joseph Mobutu, on whom the U.S. once pinned its hopes, has turned out to be erratic, unreliable, and one of the weakest strongmen who ever stumbled into power.

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 ...

The Zairean leader PresidentJoseph Mobutu was similarly supported by the West for making a public stand against Communism, while at the same time he systematically stripped his country of its ...

Planting Joseph Mobutu, who reportedly helped to kill Patrice Lumumba, as their frontman, imperial powers dumped Mobutu once he lost his usefulness in advancing exploitation. The dumping of Mobutu ...