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Congo Conflict Four million dead in five years! Rape, torture and cannibalism common! Non Governmental organisations labelled the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world with 16 million people suffering from extreme poverty and millions more homeless. More people have died in the Congo than in any other conflict since the second world war yet amazingly the situation has been largely overlooked by Britain and the other Security Council members. As the dozens of War Lords who have been fighting over the Congo’s gold, diamond and oil sign up to the Peace Treaty it is the widows and orphans who are facing the legacy of poverty, famine and disease. Five
years of civil war in the Congo officially ended on 29 June 2003, when
the Congolese parties to the conflict signed accords sharing military
and political responsibilities in a transitional government. The new
Transitional National Government started work on 25 July 2003, but the
Congolese Armed forces and police are not yet in a position to assure
law and order in all parts of the country. |