DRC: Mobutu exiles return home

The first of some 850 Congolese who fled to southern Sudan over 40 years ago after the coup that brought Mobutu Sese Seko to power have returned home. Mobutu renamed the country Zaire and ruled until a rebellion in 1997 after which the Democratic Republic of Congo was pitted into a brutal five-year war. Despite continued insecurity, the refugees were determined to go back. The UN agreed to help their return to Kisangani because of their advanced age and poor living conditions in Sudan.