16 May 1997
Flight from Zaire
Leaves the country as AFDL forces approach Kinshasa and his thirty-two-year rule collapses.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Gbadolite in Democratic Republic of the Congo. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Leaves the country as AFDL forces approach Kinshasa and his thirty-two-year rule collapses.
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