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Article: TOPPLED ZAIRIAN LEADER MOBUTU DIES IN MOROCCO.(News)(Obituary)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 8, 1997
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Mobutu Sese Seko, the Zairian leader toppled in May after nearly 32 years of autocratic rule, died yesterday of prostate cancer. He was 66.
Mobutu, who for decades was a strong anti-communist ally of the United States in Africa, died at the Mohamed V military hospital in Rabat, said two hospital workers who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Maghreb Arab Press agency said only that Mobutu had died at 9:30 p.m. local time ``after a long illness.''
He had been living in exile in Morocco since May, following his ouster by the rebel forces of Laurent Kabila, who restored the country's old name of Congo.
While his fortune was estimated in ...