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Places In News: Democratic Republic of Congo

March 16, 2024

GS Paper II International Relations

Context

Renewed clashes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have exacerbated the already dire humanitarian crisis in the region.

Democratic Republic of Congo

About  Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Location: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is located in central sub-Saharan Africa, within the Congo Basin.
  • Area:  It is the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Border: The DRC shares borders with the Republic of Congo to the northwest, the Central African Republic to the north, South Sudan to the northeast, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania (Lake Tanganyika) to the east, Zambia to the southeast and Angola to the west.
  • Congo River: The country is home to the Congo River, the second-longest river in Africa, and the Congo Basin, one of the world’s largest tropical rainforest areas.

Congo Crisis

  • Origins: The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo dates back to the 1990s when it went through two civil wars in 1996 and 1998. 
  • Rwanda Genocide: The conflict erupted in the wake of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 where ethnic Hutu extremists killed nearly one million minority ethnic Tutsis and non-extremist Hutus. 
    • Since then, the eastern DRC, bordering Rwanda, has been facing insurgency perpetrated by several rebel militant groups. 

 

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