DRC'S DESTRUCTION PAST AND PRESENT

King Leopold’s two-decade personal rule of the DRC, before he ceded it to the Belgium state, amounted to a crime against humanity more deadly than Hitler's holocaust against Jewish people. Today, one of Belgium’s House of Merode’s descendants is running one of Africa’s oldest protected regions in the Congo. Prince Emmanuel de Merode is a director of the Virunga National Park and profits from hydroelectric plants within it. However, while a nearby UN base enjoys electricity, many locals still live in darkness.

We visited the region and spoke with activists on the ground who know only too well about this kind of neo-colonialism.

It’s a blunt, forthright account of the exploitation that’s happening and will help you understand DRC’s paradox.
While it has minerals worth a staggering $24-trillion, its people are kept in poverty.

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