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Article: DEPOSED DICTATOR MOBUTU DIES PROSTATE CANCER KILLS EXILED ZAIRIAN LEADER.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- September 8, 1997
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Byline: Associated Press
RABAT, Morocco -- Mobutu Sese Seko, the Zairian strongman who was overthrown after nearly 32 years of despotic rule that left his mineral-rich country in shambles, is dead at age 66.
Mobutu died Sunday of prostate cancer 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 died at 9:30 p.m. ''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.
In his homeland, there was no ...