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DRC History |
DRC History |
DRC History | DRC History |
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The war took the lives of around 5,400,000 people, mostly through disease; the most causalities of any war in earth's history, save for the Second World War. It was a war that still simmers today particularly in the east of the country where troops from Uganda have recently been deployed. The Sun City Agreement provided a path for providing the Democratic Republic of Congo with a multi-party government and a timeline for democratic elections allowing Joseph Kabila to remain president for a transition period of two years, extendable to three, with the leader of the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, as prime minister in the transitional government both to remain in office until democratic elections could be held for the first time since independence in 1960.
Despite this apparent stability with increasing foreign investment, conflict and murder is ongoing particularly in the east of the country. The Democratic Republic of Congo itself has been described as more of a geographical concept than a proper nation; a nation that's sitting on a bed of an estimated twenty-four trillion US dollars of natural resources making it a land people are prepared to fight and die for. The video (below) charts the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo from colonial days to its more recent past in what is not just a catalogue of murders, assassinations and failed politics, but an unfolding and seemingly everlasting tragedy for the country's 89.56 million inhabitants (2020). |
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