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Congo: President Mobutu’s Hometown Gbadolite – BBC News
Visit the overgrown jungle home of former President Mobutu Sese Seko who ruled the country he re-named Zaire for 32 years.
His daughter Fyfy shows us round. She remembers a Picasso painting that used to hang on the wall.
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In 1965, Mobutu assumed the presidency after a bloodless coup and became a textbook dictator, dividing and persecuting his rivals – and through nepotism and corruption he enriched himself at the expense of the country, which he renamed Zaire.
In his remote home town of Gbadolite, he built a lavish palace and an airport to fly in luxuries like pink champagne. The runway was long enough to land Concorde – which he chartered.
But when he was ousted in 1997, time stopped in the remote town. The jungle has now reclaimed his palace. To Find out more:
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The US said it has hit “dozens” of Iranian military targets in overnight attacks, in response to Iran hitting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The military said it struck “air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats”, using aircraft, ships, and drones – including “one-way attack sea drones for the first time”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade,” the US military said. “Iran does not control it”.
In response, Iran said it targeted US bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait and also radar systems in Oman.
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President Donald Trump has said the US is reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz following days of escalating strikes between the two countries.
He said this would stop “Iran’s ships or customers” from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but “all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait”.
Iran’s foreign minister later said whoever provides safe passage “should be compensated for this service”, but Iran would remain the strait’s “GUARDIAN” – using Trump’s word.
Tehran and Washington clashed over the strait’s control after exchanging strikes in the region overnight and on Monday.
The US said it carried out strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting air defence systems, coastal radars, and missile and drone sites. Iran said it responded by striking US military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and radars in Oman.
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Wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ have taken force in Paris, as neighbouring Spain still tackles flames across the country following its own devastating fires.
Now the UK is also experiencing wildfires in England and Wales, as its third heatwave of the year is set to intensify again this week.
Here’s what we know so far about the extent of wildfires in Europe and the UK, and how heatwaves are impacting them.
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Explosions have been heard near two Iranian port cities, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, state media has reported.
It comes after another night of strikes between the US and Iran, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying it hit two UAE tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and targeted US facilities in Jordan and Bahrain.
The UAE called the attack “brazen”, adding that an Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured.
Meanwhile, the US military says it completed strikes on targets aimed at degrading “Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping” – Iranian state media reports three people were killed.
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The US military said it was carrying out a new wave of strikes on targets in Iran. It said the aim of the attacks was to degrade Iran’s ability to attack shipping in the strait of Hormuz. It came ass the US Navy resumed its blockade of Iran’s ports.
Iran said that control of the strait of Hormuz was required for its national security and it will exercise sovereignty over the key shipping lane, whatever the cost.
President Trump announced that he was scrapping a plan he had announced a day earlier, for placing a 20% toll or tariff on all cargos passing through the strait of Hormuz.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.
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@Sanwar-lp8ot
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
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@user-xw4ir6lo7b
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Mexican Espanol,carfonie.losangerese.mumbutu seseko de Kinshasa
@8neey
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Madame u know he was brutal 😂
@afilaka123
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Vanity all is vanity.
@joemukama1680
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
If only you can relate that no African leader does something without orders from the west… Then we shall have a learned discussion
@munyambabazikevinbasore1792
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Isn’t it the Belgians that Killed Patrice Lumumba 💀
@geraldmavuka
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
You the Europeans are the number one beneficiaries to our African resources, yet you talk with a sense of holiness while this wealth enters your coffers and always appear to distance yourselves from your dirt, real hypocrites
@diegolouf8409
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Tous
des voleurs. La moitié de ça famille habite à Uccle dans des châteaux
@hazelpieters4078
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
How will we stand before God one day??? What will we tell HIM. I feel sorry for all these greedy, corrupt, oppressive leaders that's stole, mismanaged, and caused great suffering to their people. Shame on them.
@kewatii
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
But who recruited him… Belgium,cia and france
@gedenironald8635
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Typical of white people to lying about the history of Africa. Patrice Lumumba rooted out corruption and demanded that international companies treat Congolese right and share the wealth of the land with all the citizens. This was his sin and the CIA together with Belgium went after the man, they CIA and Belgium not only helped Mubutu but supported him in overthrowing Patrice Lumumba. After Patrice Lumumba was killed and Mubutu took over, the Congo became what you see today. Let us be clear, the Congolese worked with the CIA to kill the very man who wanted them to be out of poverty, a man who was developing their country and protecting their mineral resources but the Congolese killed that man. BBC must stop lying about history and framing the Congolese issue as a "typical African dictator" when they know ell it is the typical satanic white man who made sure Congo was ruled by a dictator. To all the Congolese people, fix your country and stop including us Africans in your sh't hole rubish you created and continue to support.
@kimiaritiro2619
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Ba NDEKO mondele azo bebisa mémoire ya mobutu na langage que azua pourvoir na coup d’état ba NDEKO To bengana mondele azo bebisela biso mboka 😒😒😒 TATA AKENDA NA PASI ABENGAKI MBOKA WANA ZAÏRE PO TO ZA NDE BA ROI 👑 BAKONZI BA NDEKO TOZA N’IMPORTE QUOI TE! Pe To lobaka lingala na informations ezo concerneee mboka na biso toza ba français te MUndimbu te aza biso te To bengana bango na mabele na biso
@chamakambole8131
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
A very biased view piece of documentary
@WW24343
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
You are the president daughter u wouldn't see him as brutal….
The Tyrant/ Monster live a long lavish lifestyle while his people's suffered. Die in Exile and bury like a thug, and will go down in history as one of Africa worst dictator
@ochiengjimmy5866
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
I wish remaining dictators in Africa can learn from dis!
@elohimi1407
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Rwanda and Uganda are doing the US will in Congo. But Congo is a poisoned cake for the US and all its allies.
Please find the prophecy in the book of Daniel 7:23-26 and Daniel 11:42-45
@elohimi1407
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Hummmm……we know who ruin the Congo. Bill Clinton ruined the Congo, and still stealing Congo's natural resources with US multinational companies.
@merriamchumwe3402
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Mirriam chumwe
@taz-on-the-looseyusef5526
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
The palace seems to be older than Pompeii and ancient Egypt, for sure this man was not good
@saikissa6842
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
la folie des granduer qui n'a servi a personne
@bucs3557
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
typical western reporting about Africa. if u want to know about Mother Africa ask the Africans. Africans are great story tellers, they tell the truth not propaganda.
@ikunalz
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Ah yes, a ruthless dictator's brutality is funny enough for his daughter to laugh about.
@cuedabeat
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
This house should be a National Museum
@Ben-dl1jv
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
It's all vanity.
@sandrasackey4851
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
It was the West that plated against the man, why can the West leave Africa alone
@VaucluseVanguard
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Africans eh…. you gotta love em. Such nice folk.
@arafatousmane6038
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Thanks a lot for this wonderful documentary
@exonzengamokanda7610
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
You guys should stop lying in Mobutu's name you evil racist. The real reason why the Congo and Africa is poor because you white people keep stealing our resources and using our leaders so that the blame can be put on them while you guys keep your image safe and your countries rich.
@paulnantulya
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
There is absolutely nothing typical about Mobutu!
@jeremyhaines3847
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 am
Another interesting story about Mobuto of Zaire