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The new Congolese government asks the United Nations for assistance against external aggression and to help remove Belgian soldiers and foreign mercenaries from the country
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Mobutu renames himself Mobutu Sese Seko, and the country of Congo is renamed Zaire.
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An estimated 50,000 people die when cholera spreads through the huge, squalid refugee camps in eastern Zaire.
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Rwandan Hutu extremist government, establish a new armed group called the Army for the Liberation of Rwanda with members inside and outside Congo.
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Former Rwandan Hutu soldiers control access and food distribution.
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1996 - 1997
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The First Congo War comes to a gradual end as Mobutu is deposed by rebel leader Laurent Kabila, he was president and reorganizes Zaire as the Democratic Republic of Congo
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