The United Nations warned of an ongoing humanitarian disaster as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Power and water have been cut off, more than 1,000 wounded people have filled the city's...

Rebel group M23, aligned with Rwanda, says it seized the key trading hub of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. M23 said all Congolese military personnel must hand over weapons to UN peacekeepers. Congo's government and army have...

The Democratic Republic of Congo filed lawsuits against Apple Inc. in France and Belgium accusing the company of using minerals "pillaged" from the African nation in its products. In a statement, Apple said it strongly disputes the...

Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have identified a previously unknown disease that killed more than 140 people as a severe form of malaria. (Scripps News)

More cases of a mysterious flu-like illness labeled "Disease X" were reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the World Health Organization has dispatched a rapid response team to help investigate. Bloomberg News' Janice Kew...

Two decades ago, sub-Saharan Africa was the source of a lot of economic excitement. Growth was so rapid, incomes were rising and a middle class was emerging, the term Africa rising was born.



But for the past 10 years, the...

Arrival of president Mobutu of Zaire and President William R. Tolbert, Jr. of Liberia for celebrations to mark the fifth anniversary, of Idi Amin coming to power.

1. Entebbe airport s
ign
2. ms Amin greet
s Mobuto ...

Congolese army chief Mobuto visits paratroops training school in Germany.

1. ms Mobutu steps out of car and is greeted by military offi
cials
2. vs Mobutu watches para
s training
3. ms paratrooper is smacked on the...

Symposium of Human Rights held in Kinshasa

1. gv exterior conference bui
lding
2. interior conference, delegates seated,
listening
3. ms spokesman make
s speech (mute)
4. various cutaways of
delegates...

Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko arriving to Dakar for a visit to Senegal and is greeted by President Leopold Sedar Senghor.

1. gv p
lane
2. ms Senghor and dignitaries
on tarmac
3. various of Mobutu down plane steps...

Funeral ceremony and memorial service held on Corsica at the headquarters of the French Foreign Legion, for the five Legionnaires killed during the intervention in Zaire's Shaba province

1. ws priest at ser
vice
2. ws...

President Mobutu of Zaire arriving on his visit of Senegal & greeted by President Leopold Senghor

1. ls President of Zaire, Mobutu & his wife down plane steps2. ms Senghor & wife wait on tarmac3. cutaway to...

Five Europeans accused of sabotaging a bridge near Katanga, were presented to the members of the press by the Congolese government.

1. ws exterior information communications building, television and radio...

Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and four visiting African Presidents (President of Nigeria Yakubu Gowon, President of Senegal Leopold Senghor, President of Cameroon Ahmadou Ahidjo and President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko)...

As French Foreign Legion Paratroopers mopped the last pockets of resistance by invaders of the southern Zaire town of Kolwezi, President Mobutu Sese Seko paid his second flying visit to stricken province of Shaba in three days....

President Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire visits Shaba Province

1. vs of crowds and security around the area2. vs of Mobuto coming off helicopter and inspecting guard of honour3. vs of supplies being loaded onto trucks4. vs of aircraft...

Moroccan troops assembling in sports ground, loading trucks and setting off in convoy with armed vehicles in Shaba Province in Zaire.

1. ms officers mee
ting
2. ms h
elicopter
3. ms of
ficers talking
4. various...

Meeting between presidents of Chad Francois Tombalbaye and Congo Mobutu Sese Seko

1 exterior of bui
lding
2 interior as presidents of Chad Francois Tombalbaye and Congo Mobutu Sese Seko si
t and talk
3 flags of
Chad and...

Congo celebrates fifth year of independence with a parade presided over by President Joseph Kasavubu, Prime Minister Moise Tshombe, and vice-president Mobutu Sese Seko.

1. ws of cycle motor pa
rade
2. ws...

President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko opens the Trade Fair in Kinshasa.

1. cu Union Jack, zoom out to show flags of various countries on
poles
2. mcu US flag, tilt down t
o pavilion
3. gv...

As five western countries met in Paris to discuss ways of aiding Zaire overcome its problems, several thousand people took to the streets at the behest of the French Communist Party, led by Georges Marchaisin a march from the...

The first contingent of French Foreign Legion Paratroopers arrived at Kinshasa airport Friday at the start of an international effort to rescue whites trapped in rebel- occupied parts of Zaire's Shaba province. Wearing green...

The last two American C-141 transport planes in a two-week air shuttle to and from Zaire flew out of Lubumbashi Airport in Zaire's troubled Shaba Province on Friday (June 16). The final flights, manned by US Air Force crews,...

1. Rebel soldiers with commander (yellow shirt) walking towards camera

2. Rebel soldiers walking across t
armac
3. Rebel soldiers around helicopter before taking off to sur
vey damage
3. Aerial view of Goma...