Why Is Violence Flaring Up in Mineral-Rich Congo?
Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The rebels, known as M23, say they are protecting ethnic Tutsis, the minority group massacred in a 1994 genocide.
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Africa’s second-largest nation borders nine countries in strategic position
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world by land area.