Exile and Death
Mobutu went into temporary exile in Togo but lived mostly in Morocco. He died on 7 September 1997, in Rabat, Morocco, from prostate cancer. He is buried in Rabat, in the Christian cemetery known as "Pax".
In December 2007, the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo recommended returning his remains to the Congo and interring them in a mausoleum.
On the very same day he was exiled, Laurent-Désiré Kabila became the new president of Congo. Kabila was assassinated in 2001 and was succeeded by his son, Joseph Kabila.
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