JOSEPH KABILA, THE CONGOLESE ENIGMA Joseph Kabila has been president in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2001; and as foolish as it appears, President Joseph Kabila is an enigma for his people. The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country located in central Africa. The Congo became an independent state in 1960, and was mostly ruled by dictators; one of them, Laurent Désiré Kabila, is told to be Joseph Kabila’s father or step-father or foster father. Nobody really knows. Joseph Kabila became
especially immensely in mineral- rich land. The Congo has faced corruption, instability and conflict, which have kept the country from growing and developing. I am going to tell you about the Congo, how the first war of the Congo began, who is Laurent-Desire Kabila how the second war of the DRC came about and how it affected the people of the DRC. The war was stimulated by the operation of the security dilemma and the formation of a large and complex network of alliances that resulted from this security
Somewhere in the world, there’s a young innocent child stranded around a sea of dead corpses. This child hears babies cry over their dead mothers, and the women scream from rape of the enemies. Bullets fly everywhere, piercing the child’s family, and bombs destroying their home. After witnessing all of this, the child realizes that there’s no such thing as love and hope in this corrupted world. The reader believes that this situation truly seems impossible to exist, but that’s where the reader is
Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was assassinated 50 years ago today, on 17 January, 1961. This heinous crime was a culmination of two inter-related assassination plots by American and Belgian governments, which used Congolese accomplices and a Belgian execution squad to carry out the deed. Ludo De Witte, the Belgian author of the best book on this crime, qualifies it as "the most important assassination of the 20th century"
ICRtoP, the exiled Hutu extremists found refuge in Zaire and allied themselves with Mobutu. Rwanda and Uganda later invaded Zaire that year in what was known as the “First Congo War”, resulting in the overthrow of Mobutu, the installment of Laurent-Desire Kabila (who renamed the country to the DRC), and ... ... middle of paper ... ... and medical supplies. If that is not possible, then we should try to raise awareness of the plight of the Congolese so other people may try to do their part. We might
time overthrowing President Kasavubu. The 2nd Republic (1965-1997) Congo changed its name and became the Republic of Zaire in 1971 during “Zairianization” with a head of state Joseph Mobutu. The third republic (1997- ) the first president Laurent Désiré Kabila (1997-2001). Paul Kagame's Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni's Uganda and Zairians are coming together in a motley movement
Mobutu Sese Seko was born in Lisala, Belgian Congo on October 14, 1930. His mother, Marie, was a hotel maid and his father, Albéric, was a cook for a Belgian judge. Albéric died when Mobutu was only eight years old. Mobutu’s mother took care of him and his three other siblings with the help of her relatives. Mobutu was intelligent even as a boy. When he was young, the wife of his father’s employer taught him how to speak fluent French. When Mobutu was old enough his mother sent him away to a catholic
The Democratic Republic of Congo, known for its abundance of natural resources and ethnic diversity, endue a historical perpetuation of violent conflicts and international intervention over its jurisdicted territory. As a consequence, the question to be demanded is to what extent can the intervention by governmental bodies in the sexual violence issue in the Democratic Republic of Congo be justified? The sources used in this research comes from a wide range of documents, governmental reports, international
Mustafa Hashmi Africa Issues Analysis Paper May 20, 2015 Contemporary Africa Issues Project 1.) The Democratic Republic of Congo, with a population of over 75 million people is currently the second largest country in Africa. However, despite being this large of a country it is the poorest country in Africa and in the world, experiencing extreme poverty. The Democratic Republic of Congo has the lowest gross domestic product per capita in the world, which is defined as a measure of the total output
Michael Albihn-Boland Mr. Preston 30 April 2014 Essay word count:1240 Rwandan and Congolese Genocides Essay Conflict and hatred being a cause of migration. April 7th 1994 marks the start of on of the worst things ever to happen to human beings, The Rwandan Genocide. It is known that over 800’000 Rwandans were massacred, 800’000 is 20% of the countries population, over 70% of the tutsis were brutally murdered within the 100 day genocide of Rwanda. Both Hutus and tutsis were killed and murdered
This relates back to Congo, where violence spurred by ethnic rivalries is due to local groups’ desire to make money by getting into the extractive industries. In another example, Newmont, an American company, mines Ghanaian gold and pays the government part of the profits. Here, Burgis shined the spotlight on an environmental issue: the sodium cyanide