EPISODE · Dec 26, 2011 · 9 MIN
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from From Our Own Correspondent · host BBC Radio 4
"The army was rotten to the core and could not put up a fight" - Kinshasa, May 1997 Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from the country then still known as Zaire. Allan Little describes the last days of the Mobutu regime and the advance of Laurent Kabila's forces.
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