A larger base is being set up at Kisangani, in northern Zaire.

Human monkeypox: disease pattern, incidence and attack rates in a rural area of northern Zaire.

The Ebola virus takes its name from the Ebola River area in northern Zaire, where the first documented outbreak of the disease was discovered in 1976.

In previous outbreaks in the 1970's in more isolated villages in northern Zaire and Sudan, the death rate was up to 90 percent.

"He spends four months a year outside of Zaire, and another four months in Gbadolite," said one Western business executive, referring to the President's rural palace in northern Zaire.

In most areas of government, Mr. Mobutu tries to create balance among tribes to reduce frictions; but the security police and the armed forces are run by allies from northern Zaire, the President's native region.

The subspecies found in northern and central Zaire is sometimes split as Neumann's Coucal, Centropus neumanni.

On his subsequent trip home in February, with the war already going badly, Mr. Mobutu flew directly to his private retreat in his native northern Zaire.

In the case containing African musical instruments, the slotted gong or drum from the Mabudu people of northern Zaire resembles a giant piggy bank.

According to several members of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress, Mr. Mobutu made such pledges after meeting with opposition leaders at his palace in northern Zaire.