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18 OCT 21 :: n.b., in no way intended to compliment Mobutu & the MPR. He was a monster, but he & those around him were also among the most skilled anywhere in history in the creation of authoritarian propaganda & pageantry. @tommymiles |
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18 OCT 21 :: Mobutu had the remains of assassinated Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana stored in a mausoleum in Gbadolite. |
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18 OCT 21 :: KABILA, TSHISEKEDI, AND THE WAR OF APPEARANCES By @jdlzw H/T @GEC_CRG & @HerewardHolland |
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18 OCT 21 :: Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga (/məˈbuːtuː ˈsɛseɪ ˈsɛkoʊ/; born Joseph-Desiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was the President of Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) |
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7 JUL 21 :: Mobutu had the remains of assassinated Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana stored in a mausoleum in Gbadolite. |
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7 JUL 21 :: While milking his country dry, Mobutu build for himself this Nsele Palace. Now, it is in ruins. The signature of a corrupt regime. @johnKamau1 |
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7 JUL 21 :: Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga (/məˈbuːtuː ˈsɛseɪ ˈsɛkoʊ/; born Joseph-Desiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was the President of Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) |
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5 JUL 21 :: From fashion to fascism – and back? What a president’s style says about their politics @thecontinent_ |
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28 MAY 21 :: The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush @NewYorker [continued] |
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28 MAY 21 :: The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush @NewYorker [cont] |
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12 MAR 21 :: KABILA, TSHISEKEDI, AND THE WAR OF APPEARANCES By @jdlzw H/T @GEC_CRG & @HerewardHolland |
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21 OCT 20 :: The Reuters archive has a lot of clips on Jean-Bédel Bokassa, infamous president of the Central African Republic. Here he is in Aug. 1966 in Mobutu's Zaire. @Unseen_Archive |
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19 OCT 20 :: Here's a @Reuters clip of Sankara at a summit of African leaders organised by Pres. Mitterrand, 3 Oct. 1983. Houphet-Boigny appears first; then Mobutu; then Sankara, wearing a revolver. 1/3 @Unseen_Archive |
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17 JUL 20 :: Patrice Lumumba was ousted from Congo's presidency by Joseph Mobutu in Sept. 1960. @Unseen_Archive |
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3 JUL 20 :: 7 JAN 19 :: V.S. Naipaul, in A Bend in the River wrote “It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.” |
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18 MAY 20 :: In 1989, Washington, D.C., saw an outbreak of the Ebola Reston virus, a close relative of a species that killed nine out of ten infected people in Africa, in 1976.Photograph |
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8 MAY 20 :: Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga (/məˈbuːtuː ˈsɛseɪ ˈsɛkoʊ/; born Joseph-Desiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was the President of Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) |
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8 MAY 20 :: President Mobutu's ruined jungle paradise, Gbadolite - in pictures |
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8 MAY 20 :: Mobutu had the remains of assassinated Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana stored in a mausoleum in Gbadolite. |
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8 MAY 20 :: Paul Kagame, then rebel RPA leader, visiting Mobutu Sese Seko in Zairean (DRC) ruler’s Gbadolite resort in 1992. @cobbo3 |
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