Goodbye, Mobutu? (Zaire despot Mobutu Sese Seko)

Newsweek | April 21, 1997| | Copyright

After more than three decades of support from the West, the African dictator is now friendless and on the verge of fading away

NOT SO LONG AGO, the West cared deeply about the southern Zairean province of Shaba. Uranium mined there fueled the A-bombs that flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki; later, revenue from the region's copper fields was vital to Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko, a key ally for the United States and its friends. In 1978 French and Belgian troops, backed by U.S. planes, routed rebels who invaded the region. For years, Mobutu allowed the CIA to use ...

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