 AMFI had become involved in politics in the Congo by 1996, when Mobutu Sese Seko was the President of Zaire, five years before he was deposed.Overall, the representatives of AMFI signed three agreements to equal the $1 billion dollar deal for "the extraction of copper and cobalt in Kolwezi, cobalt in Kipushi, and the construction of a factory for the treatment of zinc in Kipushi.