On Saturday 17 May 1997, Laurent Kabila’s forces seized power marking the collapse of Zaire, the 32-year-old state which had been created by Mobutu Sese Seko out of the chaos of the original Congo, and sustained with the help at different periods of his Western allies Belgium, the United States and France.

Mobutu Sese Seko's departure as the leader of Africa's third-largest country was one of the most significant events to shape post-colonial Africa and various analysts say that Mobutu created his own downfall with a mixture of extreme greed and shortsightedness….

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The Collapse of Zaïre: Implosion, Revolution or External Sabotage? Mel McNulty, The Journal of Modern African Studies , Vol. 37, No. 1 (Mar., 1999), pp. 53-82 (30 pages)

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Africa, A Modern History, Guy Arnold.

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