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  • Mobutu's Game After me comes the flood (Season 1, Episode 4)
  • TV Episode | Documentary

Mobutu's Game

After me comes the flood (Season 1, Episode 4)
TV Episode | Documentary
With the end of the Cold War, Mobutu's primary reason for existence disappears. His Western allies drop him one by one. Anarchy reigns in Congo - chaos and war have taken over daily life. His divine status is gone, and the Congolese people...See moreWith the end of the Cold War, Mobutu's primary reason for existence disappears. His Western allies drop him one by one. Anarchy reigns in Congo - chaos and war have taken over daily life. His divine status is gone, and the Congolese people now dare to openly abandon him. Deathly ill, with prostate cancer in its grip, he lives in total seclusion in his palaces in the impenetrable Equateur province, accompanied only by his wives, the twin sisters Bobi and Kosia Ladawa. When the Rwandan genocide breaks out in 1994, and his former ally François Mitterrand asks him to accommodate Rwandan refugees at the border, Mobutu sees an opportunity for an international comeback and eagerly accepts this unexpected offer. A wrong and fateful assessment: Rwanda, with Laurent-Désiré Kabila, has the perfect pawn to invade Congo and definitively remove Mobutu from the throne. Mobutu, once so powerful and untouchable, will die a few months later as an ordinary exile in Morocco, leaving his country in a deep crisis that continues to this day. In doing so, he laid the foundation for the region's instability, which, fueled in part by the insatiable hunger of the international community for Congolese minerals, led to "the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II" and the death of millions of people. See less
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Director
Guillaume Graux
Writers
Wendy Bashi (journalist) | Guillaume Graux (story editor) | Joost Vandensande (editor-in-chief)
Composer
Laryssa Kim
Cinematographer
Tom Vantorre
Editor
Guillaume Graux
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Feb 4, 2025
Release date
Feb 4, 2025 (Belgium)

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