Among Africa’s troubled countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the deadliest, with conflict almost constant in its eastern reaches. There are ethnic clashes, resource-driven contentions, and battles waged mostly to control the criminalized proceeds of kleptocracy. The national government, in Kinshasa, barely projects power beyond the precincts of the capital. Thus the DRC is a monumentally failed state that teeters on the brink of collapse.
The rot in DRC started in 1884-5 at the Berlin conference among the European powers to carve up Africa. This resulted not just in the Belgian king's personal fief but also crazy international borders. Tutsi & Hutu are indigenous to both sides of the border. The Chinese are finding out how dangerous it is to invest in the DRC's conflict minerals. Linda Agerbak
The rot in DRC started in 1884-5 at the Berlin conference among the European powers to carve up Africa. This resulted not just in the Belgian king's personal fief but also crazy international borders. Tutsi & Hutu are indigenous to both sides of the border. The Chinese are finding out how dangerous it is to invest in the DRC's conflict minerals. Linda Agerbak