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| 1996 |
| | | Expelled from Sudan, Osama bin Laden moves to Afghanistan where he builds training camps for al-Qaeda | |
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| 1997 |
| | | After thirty-two years as the corrupt dictator of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko is driven out by Laurent Kabila | |
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| 1997 |
| | | The name of Zaire is changed once again, reverting to the Democratic Republic of Congo | |
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| 1998 |
| | | A UN peacekeeping force takes responsibility for maintaining order in the Central African Republic | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Civil war breaks out again in the Congo, after a Tutsi uprising against Laurent Kabila's government | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Neighbouring African nations, with an interest in Congo's mineral wealth, take part on both sides in a developing civil war | |
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| 1998 |
| | | US cruise missiles attack al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical factory in Khartoum | |
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| 1999 |
| | | A peace plan signed in Lusaka brings to an end eleven months of renewed civil war in the Congo | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Laurent Kabila, the president of the Congo, is assassinated in a failed coup attempt | |
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