Today in Afro History ! Mobutu Sese Seko seizes total control over The Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President in 1965. He renames it Zaire in 1971 !

U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger meets with President Mobutu of Zaire in his Pentagon office, Room 3E880. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Young women in preparing manioc bread or Fufu. Own work – photo made by Bob Walker in Democratic Republic of Congo, 1988 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Map of major languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Euskara: Kongoko Errepublika Demokratikoko handi hizkuntzen mapa (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: DRC, orthographic projection. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)