Stern
20 May, 1997
Machine guns are retrieved from the swimming pool belonging to former president Mobutu's son Kongolo. On May 18, after a seven-month military campaign, Laurent Kabila's rebel forces captured the capital Kinshasa. They deposed Mobutu, who fled and died in Morocco a few months later. Kabila renamed the country the Democratic Republic of Congo. In his inauguration speech as president he promised elections in April 1999.
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