02-10-2016 12:47 via news.yahoo.com

Deja vu in Congo as President Kabila clings to power

By Joe Bavier ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko shed a tear as he delivered a speech in April 1990 promising his people an end to one-party rule and a future without the man they knew as the Guide. A quarter of a century after Mobutu's speech, there is a sense of deja vu as the fate of democracy hangs in the balance and fears of civil war grow in Africa's largest copper producer, now known as Democratic Republic of Congo. President Joseph Kabila has failed to confirm he will
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