Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu) (1930-1997), was the Zaïrean military dictator and ruled a one-party totalitarian dictatorship from 1965 to 1997, and in 1971 he renamed `Democratic Republic of the Congo` to `Republic of Zaïre`, and a Leopard
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Mobutu
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BANQUE DU ZAÏRE
MILLE NOUVEAUX ZAÏRES
1000 (Translation: Bank of Zaïre, One Thousand New Zaïres)
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1000
MILLE NOUVEAUX ZAÏRES
BANQUE DU ZAÏRE 1000 (Translation: Counterfeiter is punished with a prisn sentence, Five Thousand New Zaïres, Bank of Zaïre)