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Most of the petty aspects of the regime disappeared after 1990, and the beginning of the democratic transition.

The latter was intended to be fairly short-lived, but Mobutu's power plays dragged it in length, to ultimately 1997, when the forces-led by Laurent Kabila eventually toppled the regime, after a 9-month-long successful military campaign.