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Article: The Dark Horses of 1994
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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IS ZAIRE a country any more? The vast undeveloped heart of
Africa which balloons out from the Congo river, renamed the Zaire
River, is breaking up. So are the countries around it. Chaos,
banditry, starvation and disease are likely to affect people in the
whole region, hundreds of thousands of whom are already refugees.
In Zaire the writ of the government has never been strong away
from the capital, Kinshasa, but now it has collapsed. It is a
collapse not triggered by war but by bad government and the
inability of the country's ruler to distinguish between his own
security and satisfaction and the country's well-being. The
President, Mobutu Sese Seko, now flies by helicopter from his ...