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In the end, the Mobutu era left few visible traces behind: a handful of palaces and monuments to the late dictator lie decrepit, while virtually no infrastructure from his time survives to this day.

Now, it needs to spend more again on the military and shore up crumbling infrastructure, from potholed roads to a decrepit rail system.

He wasn’t talking to them or to the decrepit Democratic power structure they represent.

Years before the U.S. military set off for battlegrounds in Cuba and the Philippines, rebels in both places had begun to fight for independence from the decrepit Spanish empire.

Therefore some graves can become abandoned and decrepit over time.