Word: kabila
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...Kabila's intentions, however, were difficult to measure. As his forces closed in on Kinshasa last week, he placed a call to the U.S.'s United Nations ambassador, Bill Richardson. In April, Richardson had spent a week in Lubumbashi and Kinshasa, trying to work out a deal between the two adversaries. Richardson told TIME that last week he had urged Kabila to reassure the world. "You need to issue a public statement about your intentions," the ambassador told him. "You need to calm fears. You need to say that you want democratic elections." But the rebel leader only laughed...
...days before Kabila's forces moved in, scores of Mobutu's political and military cronies were reported fleeing across the Congo River to Brazzaville in the nation of Congo, some with suitcases full of cash. One man seen steering a speedboat across the river was the hated General Nzimbi Ngbale, head of the elite presidential guard...
...sign that Mobutu's end had come: Switzerland announced it had seized his villa at Savigny, near Lausanne, valued at some $5.5 million. Mobutu's holdings in cash and real estate, most of them in Europe, are said to be worth $4 billion. Kabila's government is demanding that all Mobutu's assets be frozen...
...Washington, President Bill Clinton welcomed the downfall of the dictator the U.S. had backed for most of his reign, but issued a stern warning to Kabila. "The U.S. position is clear," Clinton said. "We want to see a transition to a genuine democracy" in Zaire...
Some of the credit for Kabila's "soft landing" in Kinshasa may be owed to the persistent intervention of President Nelson Mandela of South Africa, who together with Richardson spent weeks trying to broker a deal that would avoid major bloodshed. It was partly at Mandela's urging that Mobutu relinquished his dictatorship. But early last week the South African leader's effort appeared to have collapsed, after Kabila failed to appear for a meeting with Mandela and Mobutu aboard a South African naval vessel docked off the port of Pointe Noire. Mandela, who had been host aboard the same...