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1994: AN INFLUX OF REFUGEES AND A CHOLERA OUTBREAK

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  • Assistance from United Nations for assistance against external aggression.

    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

  • Congo gained independence from Belgium

  • From Congo to Zaire 1971 - 1997

    Mobutu renames himself Mobutu Sese Seko, and the country of Congo is renamed Zaire.

  • An influx of refugees and a cholera outbreak

    An estimated 50,000 people die when cholera spreads through the huge, squalid refugee camps in eastern Zaire.

  • New Armed Plans

    Rwandan Hutu extremist government, establish a new armed group called the Army for the Liberation of Rwanda with members inside and outside Congo.

  • Aid agencies stop working in the refugee camps in eastern Zaire

    Former Rwandan Hutu soldiers control access and food distribution.

  • First Congo War

    1996 - 1997

  • Zaire becomes the democratic republic of congo.

    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