Ok so today Mr. Bruns was gone. Thsi is the link to where our assigned blog for this week is: Link It was a research day so we started the research and power point on our Africa Project which, for our group, is on the congo. This is what we need for the project:
1. Define the conflict.
2. Causes and history of the conflict. This may require you to look back at their history.
3. Effects of conflict.
4. What the United Nations(or other international organizations) and the US are doing to help.
5. Major people involved in the conflict
The UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), organized in 1999, maintains over 16,500 uniformed peacekeeper in Northeast congo and
The congo is one of the biggest trafficers of illicit drugs in Africa. traffickers exploit lax shipping controls to transit pseudoephedrine through the capital; while rampant corruption and inadequate supervision leaves the banking system vulnerable to money laundering, the lack of a well-developed financial system limits the country's utility as a money-laundering center. They are also a large center for the illegal trafficing of men, women, and children for sexual purposes and forced labor and things like that.
Ethnic strife and civil war, touched off by a massive inflow of refugees in 1994 from fighting in Rwanda and Burundi, led in May 1997 to the toppling of the MOBUTU regime by a rebellion backed by Rwanda and Uganda and fronted by Laurent KABILA. He renamed the country the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but in August 1998 his regime was itself challenged by a second insurrection again backed by Rwanda and Uganda. Troops from Angola, Chad, Namibia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe intervened to support KABILA's regime. A cease-fire was signed in July 1999 by the DRC, Congolese armed rebel groups, Angola, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zimbabwe but sporadic fighting continued. Laurent KABILA was assassinated in January 2001 and his son, Joseph KABILA, was named head of state. In October 2002, the new president was successful in negotiating the withdrawal of Rwandan forces occupying eastern Congo; two months later, the Pretoria Accord was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and establish a government of national unity.
People in Congo have a very high risk of infectious diseases from animals, water, food and other things. The country is not one of the richest and has a low standard of living, because of the strife and civil wars many people get their food by poaching animals for the rainforests and stuff. Conflict that began in August 1998 has dramatically reduced national output and government revenue, increased external debt, and resulted in the deaths of more than 5 million people from violence, famine, and disease.
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