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Leadership
the armed groups with weapons.
They never mention the foreign
multinationals who use their
influence and money to shape
local policies in their favor and
who also back the chaos and
unrest. They never say that the
so-called turmoil and unrest are
kept in place by external forces
who use them as a distraction
Informal mining operations form a large part of DR Congo’s minerals industry. BBC News for their evil agendas. While the
Congolese people are in a state of
long queues waiting for Apple just like Africa, is not poor; she unrest and destabilization, they,
and the other phone makers to is just made poor. And that is a the creators of the mayhem, are
open their shops to allow their fact. busy stealing natural resources
customers to buy their new from Congo and shipping them
phones and other products, And not to sound like one is out of the country.
millions of Congolese children, trying to blame others or to
men and women are also put the responsibility for the The intentionally created
queuing in the cold mines, not to poverty in Congo on foreigners internal conflicts, the proxy
get new phones, but to receive and foreign agendas only, wars, the political instability,
the peanuts that they are paid but just like Africa, Congo is the stealing of resources, the
in those mines that could only deliberately kept poor by those corruption among Africa’s
make sense in horror movies. who profit from her poverty or, puppet government officials,
let me say, her wealth. the greed among individuals,
So, Congo makes the world both foreign and local, and the
rich, but the sad reality is that, Even the media is complicit inability of Africans to unite
with all the wealth of Congo, it to use Africa’s natural and
is considered one of the poorest When Congo is mentioned in human resources for common
nations in the world, with 63% Western media, it’s always continental developmental
of the people living under the about local rebel groups goals are all part of what has
poverty line. The question is, fighting themselves or at war made Africa poor.
why? with the state or killing their
fellow citizens. They don’t ever Another fact to consider is this:
The answer to the question of mention the role of the Western the world sees Congo and Africa
the so-called poverty of Congo nations who are funding the as its farmland or mine for
is the same answer to the so- chaos, carrying out training for natural resources and nothing
called poverty of Africa. Congo, the terror groups, and supporting more. So, when they make
global policies about global
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