Congo's history is some of the oldest human history in the world. In order to understand the totality of Congo, one must go back tens of hundreds of millennia. But much of whats happening today in DRC is reminiscent of the catastrophe initially brought upon Congo in the late 1800s by the then-king of Belgium, Leopold II. During the Berlin Conference, a meeting of European powers to divide up the African continent into their colonial properties, the territory was largely undesired by many of the

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38K views · 218 reactions | Why are people in the Democratic Republic of Congo so desperately poor given their country has such a wealth of natural resources? Who mines the precious minerals used to make our smartphones? Journalist Karim Ben Khelifa reveals the truth with his augmented reality app Seven Grams. | RFI English | Facebook