@mvulusi96

He was under a considerable amount of stress around that time; his father's regime was collapsing before his very eyes and his fate was hanging in the balance as political enemies felt emboldened during this time. If he had been suffering from HIV, perhaps all of these aggressive changes complicated his illness and further advanced his mortality.

Although, I question if his cause of death was really from AIDS. Wasn't he actively working to undermind the military control of Kinshasa by Kabila, even after his father's death? In none of the last photos of him does he show any known symptoms of HIV/AIDS.

I suspect he was poisoned, but maybe my conspiracy theories are a bit far fetched.

@Matebu

What was his conditon like at the time that he died? Were his dying symptoms consistent with that of HIV/AIDS? Things such as significant weight loss and skin lesions?

I suppose his early death was some sort of divine mercy, because with Mobutu's regime being snuffed out...he would have fell into the hands of his enemies in or lived a paraniod life in whatever country was willing enough to provide him long-term refuge, cause that little rest stop in Monaco wouldn't have lasted very long!