It was under Mobuto Seko’s rule in Zaire that the first known outbreak of Ebola occurred along the Ebola river. Interesting that Seko was a customer of the Merchant of Death Viktor Bout.
When an American aide worker fell ill during the effort to figure out what was causing the outbreak the rest of the aid group wanted to fly him out to South Africa and Seko objected, refusing to have any of his planes fly to an apartheid state. The aid workers managed to arrange for a US military cargo plane instead.
Ebola River is in Congo, not Zaire?!