Op-ed: DRC, term limits, constitutional 'coups', and the African Union's key role

<p>Nineteen years ago today, on 17 May 1997, Laurent Désiré Kabila overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko, the president of what was then Zaire. Although he was supported by a regional coalition that had the tacit backing of key Western countries, the ousting of Mobutu was haphazard at best, Kabila himself a relative unknown with no experience of government.</p><p>This is how the last political transition in the second-largest country in Africa took place.</p>
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