Far from loved ones, Washington’s Congolese community speaks out
The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country in the center of Africa. It’s home to spectacular things, like: a majority of the Congo Basin rainforest, the second largest in the world, with magnificent flora and fauna found nowhere else on earth, and a population of one hundred million people belonging to 250 ethnic groups who speak more than 200 languages. The country also has an estimated $24 trillion worth of untapped minerals.
That fact has put Congo in the center of international conflict for generations. However, over the last few months, a rebel militia called M23 has taken…
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