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Atlantic Council - Why the Congo Matters T

8 Mar 2016

What Burundi, and Uganda—the states that trespassed into the Congo lacks is a responsible government, capable the Congo in 1996 and ignited a terrible, almost decade- of the judicious use and careful stewardship of those long conflict, which engulfed a third of the African resources for the benefit of the population. [...] about the difficulty of finding comprehensive data and the extent of the country’s disintegration), though the author estimates between three and four million people were killed in what is the deadliest conflict in the world since 1945. [...] The provinces of the security in the Kivus, the abusive behavior of Congolese Congo that border Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi— national security forces, and the continuing competition North and South Kivu—are ethnically diverse but for conflict minerals, the situation in this eastern Congo populated by a large number of Banyarwanda, people region has scarcely improved. [...] the armed unrest of small but significant parts of the population, and the security forces’ inability to enforce The industry is further undermined by the tens of the rule of law (coupled with their own frequent human thousands of illegal creuseurs (or diggers) that have rights violations) constitute a kind of triple whammy swarmed on abandoned mines or along the periphery that condemns the easter. [...] The population is One of the foremost Africanists in the world today, Prunier extremely tired of the antics of both soldiers and is the author of more than 200 scholarly articles and a politicians, whether national or foreign.
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