after independence, mobutu became the army chief of staff.ba, the country's first prime minister, who had turned to the soviet union after being shunned by the west. with the cold war backing of belgium and the cia, mobutu handed lumumba to the rebels to be killed. his body was cut up and dissolved in acid. he's normally reclusive and camera shy — it builds his mystique. the scale and pomp of this highly visible ceremony are designed to bolster his fast—diminishing authority. it is also an unwitting acknowledgement that he knows he's in trouble. mobutu transformed himself into a classic african dictator, after becoming president in the 1965 coup. political opponents and rivals were killed or tortured. his regime was totalitarian and corrupt. he got rich while the country got poor. what was he like as a person? a generous person. i tell you the truth. not only because he's my family. he liked all, he liked his family. he's been alleged to have been a terrible president, brutal. oh, brutal, i don't think so. if you're brutal, you start with you

by may 1997, mobutu was out and mob justice was turned on his enforcers. was the rebel leader, laurent kabila, the warlord turned statesman. speaks french. but just a year later, rebel soldiers, supported by rwanda and uganda, launched a rebellion against kabila. swift regional diplomacy and the offer of mining rights brought in zimbabwean, angolan and namibian support, to drive at the rwandan backed forces. it turned one country's crisis a regional war. over the years, millions died, millions more were forced from burned homes. despite a peace deal, militants splinted and spread. after his father's assassination in 2001, joseph kabila took over as president. the violence continues today. we're flying with united nations peacekeepers into one of the most dangerous parts of the country, beni, in north kivu. you're on patrol with us with the united nations forces here, going out into quite a dangerous area. and there's ebola nearby and also, there is a very strong militant group here that, in the last few days, has killed probably dozens of civilians. the gr

independence gained in 1960 was followed by bloody civil war and thirty years of dictatorship under mobutu. toy, the d d is still plagued by politic i instabity.. but there are e oases of peace d serenity. the capital, kinshasa is known for its lively cultural scene. and that includes one of central africa's only symphony orchestras. >> he is tough and demanding. conductor r armand diangienda, says this is how he gets the best from his students. >> you have a problem with your flute! >> i'm actually a pilot. but music is my passion. it's true, i don't have academic training in this area. but passion is what helps us get to know our instruments and to learn to play. >> everyone here shares that same passion for classical music. barely anyone has professional training -- instead, they all trained right here, together, in this orchestra. >> i'm happy here and i have a lot of friends. >> dauphine mata started learning the violin at the age of twelve. and right from the start, she was determined to join an orchestra. dauphine lives in this district. music, she says, has helped her enormously. >

we also saw the president building a brand—new airport in his home village, like mobutu sese soku in forest somewhere in the congo. we saw the president... and they say it openly, that the president is purchasing aircraft for air tanzania corporation. that is not the president'sjob. you point to specific examples but i point to systems. the tax and revenue service is bringing in more today than it was before magafuli came to power. he has delivered on his promise to make tanzanians pay their taxes to be a more efficient and responsible society and economy. that is a really big deal. 0n the contrary. there was a spike. an increase in tax revenue during the first year in 2016 — 2017, thereabout. and since then, revenue, tax revenue for the government has gone down. why? because the president has attacked the business community. he has attacked private investors, investment is drying up... hang on. you say he attacked private investors. what he has done, again, is deliver on a promise made to get a little tougher with the foreign corporates including the huge mining companies who have b

we also saw the president building a brand—new airport in his home village, like mobutu sese soku inorest somewhere in the congo. we saw the president... and they say it openly, that the president is purchasing aircraft for air tanzania corporation. that is not the president'sjob. you point to specific examples but i point to systems. the tax and revenue service is bringing in more today — $913; thsfggbgutr- why? hang on. you say he attacked private investors. he said he would get tougher with them and he has delivered and the tanzanian people, again i return to the polling evidence, it seems they like what he has done. whose polling are we talking about here? when the president and his party and his government passed laws that inhibit independent verification of the statistics provided publicly, who is there to say... well, i don't want to stick to polls. let's take the analysis of a respected independent observer of tanzania, dan paget, who writes on tanzania and affairs at oxford university. he says the magafuli has defied the assumption that african states cannot take on big mult

i had a lot of faith in idi amin and president mobutu before they drove whole nations into the groundp, and professionalism that we all share. i'm not saying i'm disappointed, more like devastated. 'i'm waiting for my man, $26 in my hand.' >> josh: tony. so, they stopped packaging the egg salad sandwiches in whole containers, so it's split with a tuna sandwich as well. the egg salad is still there. >> anthony: my eggs are commingling with tuna? you can't actually bring outside food in there and put it on their shelves, and then we'll pretend that i'm actually finding these. was that your hideous plan? >> josh: well it wasn't a hideous plan. >> anthony: okay, go do that. and then they'll never know. >> josh: fantastic. >> anthony: so we're paying two different lawson's for the same sandwich. oh look, how fortunate. i'll take all three of you. worst -- oh! worst scene ever. our dad was in the hospital. because of smoking. but we still had to have a cigarette. had to. but then, we were like. what are we doing? the nicodermcq patch helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. nicodermcq. you

. >> i think in the congo, mobutu wasn't just corrupt. once i'm feeding at the trough, i can drink from it as well. people understand corruption comes with the gig. >> i've had some experience working in an enterprise that started with someone who had a dubious -- i don't want to say much more because i don't want to get in any litigation. but my, my observing that situation is that a con man will surround himself with people who are like minded so they never question that person. so they all have their -- it's almost like a feudal system where everybody sort of gives a wink and a nod. >> right. >> you take yours. just kick some back up. it's not terribly dissimilar from the way that we perceive the mafia. >> yeah. >> or, you know, in my first book i reported a lot on the financial crisis. one of the things that happens there is this moral devolution. a person in another circumstances might act well or with integrity. they look around. that guy is getting rich off shady deals, that guy is get being rich offer shady deals. am i the sucker?

etienne tshisekedi opposed president mobutu over his dictatorship.eak in many ways. that's part of the reason that the announcement that he is the president as of today has been greeted with an enormous matter suspicion in congo. the suspicion is that tshisekedi could only have one this election if he had then deal with president kabila in the background, and that kabila has written this election because he thinks that tshisekedi is his best bet of maintaining control in congo. so the election will be greeted with a lot of controversy. so suspicions that he is a puppet leader, what do you think will happen? this will be a very uncertain period and it is very tense in congo today. we have already seen the martin fayulu camp, and he was a front runner, and i think the catholic church which has been gathering election data, strongly believes that martin fayulu has won this election. a lot of what happens now hinges on what fayulu and his supporters decide to do to respond. there is no doubt that fayulu does not see this as a legitimate result, but at th