大象传媒 World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, D R Congo: The Fall of Mobutu

D R Congo: The Fall of Mobutu

From Our Own Correspondent

"The army was rotten to the core and could not put up a fight" - Kinshasa, May 1997

Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1997 and the country which was then still called Zaire.

Allan Little describes the last days of the Mobutu regime and the advance of Laurent Kabila's forces.

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Tue 27 Dec 2011 04:50GMT

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