2013年10月8日 · In the 1970s, President Mobutu Sese Seko of what was then Zaire, spent millions of dollars on a luxurious palace at Gbadolite, deep in the rain forest.

2020年9月30日 · Here, Mobutu built three large marble-clad palaces, a 100-room motel run by the Mobutu family, an airport with an extensive runway long enough to accommodate a Concorde, …

The three-story palace in Gbadolite was used primarily for public functions. Mobutu also built a nuclear bunker that could house more than 500 people and was the largest in Africa; this was …

2017年12月11日 · Images captured by Agence France-Presse (AFP) photographer John Wessel's show the ruins of one of Africa's most famous dictators – President Mobutu Sese …

Mobutu’s palaces in Gbadolite were destroyed and looted by the rebels. They smashed luxurious furniture, tore off beautiful silk curtains, and stole everything of value. Many buildings now do …

2022年5月10日 · 25 years after the dictator's fall, his name remains associated with "national unity". Built on a hill in Kawele, 15 km south of the capital of North Ubangi province in the …

Afterwards we will drive north of Kinshasa, visit the old Chinese palace of Mobutu and two gigantic satellites in which he wanted to be able to broadcast to all of the nation. We will stay …

2020年11月13日 · Situated 40km east of Kinshasa, DRC, the palace was commissioned by the flamboyant dictator to be an imperial Chinese garden, mixed with his additional Afro-Futuristic, …

2020年11月19日 · Here are a few pictures of the city, the roads and the old Mobutu palace. Check out William Clowes’s excellent article on Gbadolite …

2015年6月30日 · Mobutu constructed two lavish palaces—one for hosting affairs of state and a private residence at Kawele, seven miles outside the town—and a village of Chinese pagodas.