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After a few final hours of procrastination, Mobutu, 66, ultimately accepted the harsh but just verdict of history. His grossly ruinous reign was finished. On Friday he flew without fanfare to his garish mansion at Gbadolite, 700 miles north of Kinshasa, leaving Information Minister Kin-Kiey Mulumba to announce to the press that the President had "ceased all intervention in the conduct of the affairs of state." Mobutu, who had said he would never be known as "ex-President," only "late President," still refused to give up his title. The President "reigns but does not govern," said Kin-Kiey...
...early success, Kabila is still largely a mystery, at least to Congolese. He has appeared on television just once, and some people grumble that he has spent too much time overseas. "He's a person we are just discovering," says Mabi Mulumba, professor of economics at the University of Kinshasa and a former Prime Minister under Mobutu. "Even the old guard know little about him." Kabila, who has a girlfriend and says he wants to marry soon and have a family, spent much of his childhood in Tanzania, where his father owned a bar and based the rebel movement that...
...bloodless transfer of power to Kabila. Mobutu had vowed that he would die before being declared the ex-president of Zaire, and to the last refused to cede authority to the rebel leader. Instead, the resignation was vague at best. Government information minister Kin-Kiey Mulumba said that Mobutu was giving up his presidential powers, transferring the symbolic title of head of state to the newly elected parliament speaker, Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo. "He reigns but does not govern," Mulumba said. Under a proposal from Nelson Mandela, Kabila would accept a peaceful transfer of power from Monsengwo or some other transitional...
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