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No political figure in the last two decades was more charismatic than he.
Over the past several decades there have been a number of clinical trials on various forms of homeopathic treatment for a host of disorders from stroke and post-operative complications to arthritis and fibromyalgia to influenza and upper respiratory track infections.
Measles, cholera, and syphilis soon riddled the population, which was cut in half over just a few decades.
Thanks to a declining birth rate and negligible immigration, it faces a steady decline in its working-age population for at least the next several decades while retirees increase.
As the forces of rebellion gathered momentum this spring in the Republic of Zaire, commentators felt obliged to offer a thumb-sucking retrospective on the country's embattled and dying president, Mobutu Sese Seko, who had held power for more than three decades.