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DR Congo: The endless mirage of Freedom
In Central Africa lies a country, almost a subcontinent, roughly the size of all of Western Europe—one of the richest countries in terms of resources, yet one of the poorest in terms of resource gain ...
In Congo itself, humans were the least valued commodity, at the mercy of the worst ...
The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...
It started with a most deceptive name, the Congo Free State, the name for what was a personal real estate fiefdom for Belgium’s king Leopold who retained mercenary explorers in the 19th Century ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...