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D R Congo: The Fall of Mobutu

"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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10 minutes

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Tue 27 Dec 2011 04:50GMT

Broadcasts

  • Boxing Day 2011 08:50GMT
  • Boxing Day 2011 12:50GMT
  • Boxing Day 2011 16:50GMT
  • Tue 27 Dec 2011 01:50GMT
  • Tue 27 Dec 2011 04:50GMT