The Deomcratic Republic of the Congo Crisis Explained: A Genocide the World Refuses to Name
For more than three decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has experienced one of the deadliest sustained conflicts since World War II, resulting in millions of deaths and the displacement of entire communities. Often described as “too complex” to understand, the crisis is more accurately defined by familiar forces: colonial extraction, foreign intervention, ethnic fragmentation, and the global demand for natural resources.
