Congo's Missing Millions - BBC Africa Eye documentary
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- 🇨🇩🏦Unlocking secrets from Africa’s biggest banking data leak, BBC Africa Eye reveals how millions of dollars of public funds ended up in the private bank accounts of businesses based in Democratic Republic of Congo and owned by family and associates of former President Joseph Kabila. This programme also raises serious questions about unexplained transactions through an official account for the office of the Presidency when Joseph Kabila was in power.
How much did the former president know?
The investigation is part of #CongoHoldUp, an international collaboration with access to evidence from BGFI Bank.
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I just don’t understand how can you sleep at night while you’re stealing millions from your own people knowing damn well the condition of absolute poverty some of your own fellow country men live in smh …. It’s mind blowing to me …
You talk some senses in someone like him filthy and stained with blood. He has no morals. He won't care at all about others but himself.
That is your typical African "leader" when we say they are the reason for Africa's stagnation, others defend them. Look all over the continent and you will find them. The worst is that the money is kept in accounts outside Africa and it ends up being locked there when they die.
@@robertidenya1432 Tell me about that. It's as if on their birth certificate it's written "stupid too". They are all doing the same thing. When sending that money abroad what do they expect in case those people turn their back on them.
This is what happened when you have sold your soul to Roman Catholic Antichrist Church's secret societies
@@iskaykabeya609 You are talking nonsense these people have sold their soul to the devil.
The story of corruption in Africa is such a damn shame! We would rather enrich other nations other than ourselves because we have no sense of loyalty towards ourselves. No wonder the rest of the world continues to look down on us. I'm so sick of this s**t!
The truth is that rich countries do not mind stolen money or robber customers. These leader buy properties, stocks, and are investors and their rich host countries know how they got the money. The irony is that the rich countries want to locate their tax evaders and expect cooperation from others.
The west benefits massively from stolen wealth from developed nations. the billions are in their banks and economic systems. if you dont feel this wealth then the guys at the bottom, you and I ( in Africa) are merely the losers. Essentially most african and western governments are run by downright corrupt people with a good face on it for diplomatic purposes
I agree the west sees Africa as its gold mine. Its not in their interest to have a developed Africa or else their resources would be used on their own development.
Same in Phillipines, same story
@@maitreya1906 They don't know whats waiting for them in the afterlife. God is always watching let these corrupters have these few hours on earth cause thats all their getting for an eternity
NOT FORGETTING AFRICA'S MISSING DIAMONDS, GOLD, ART AND BILLIONS TO GREAT BRITAIN!!!
Not forgetting valuable art
I fully agree with you. President Donald Trump opened a can of worms, the few at the top who abused the African leaders to execute their evil plans to usher in a NWO. By now we all should and it is very sorry, the Rothschilds, Rockefellers etc used the African leaders as puppets, for all of us got a price. Africa was raped from it's God given treasures!
@@danielsinden104 Disfortunately, most people do NOT k-now (not no, the letters k and w are NOT silent, why should they be?) The KREATHER is GREATER than god, or God.
The Dutch word God of which the British adopted and Capitalized means fortune and material wealth.
That being said, your point is on Point, " The British Capitalized on the God ( wealth) of the Kongo.
What’s ur point basically?!
Endelea kuimba huo wimbo, hadi kizazi kijao. Miaka nenda, miaka rudi. Things being stolen by colonialists do not justify current corruption. Endelea kuimba, ukitosheka utanyamaza.
The need for African countries to have strong institutions of governance and not strong men can not be overemphasized
Joseph Kabila he is with SADC together and people of Congo 🇨🇩 💪
It is strong men who build and maintain strong institutions! Stop the BS!
That is why people liked and still like men such as Joseph Stalin
@@BAROTIKI No it really not. Have you seen the US congress, weak and fragile but educated mostly. They just dont act educated but for what they steal they make sure America is still at an advantage.
Africa fails because we have selfish men in power.
@@KC-cb7ov Strong men and selfish men are 2 different things
They don’t talk about the European,American and Chinese systems that works with Kabila and stole all that money together
We are all aware but the African "Leaders" skip happily along with these countries. Rich African leaders and poor constituents = Unethical and immoral acts.
You have not heard of dan gertler who supplied the 25million to kabila's father and then got the rights to the diamond mines and other mines later bought out by Glencore this gertler guy has congos money in the bvi tax haven!!!!!
@@newtonpeart8573 my Brother African politicians are the worst they are the cancer that is destroying Africa,it is sad.
If Europeans, Americans and chinese people do steal money from african public funds, it's because of African corrupt politicians and governants, that are not managing the public funds of their countries to favour their population.
Wake up people they don't want them to work well together as an african continent otherwise we will become bigger than the western world and usa what we already are.
But their blind their eyes with money and good deals, even on the backs of us African people is a shame. If we as african countries work together and invest together we don't need anyone outside of africa to help for oil machines and so on we do it all ourselves.
Once upon a time there was a man called Mansa Moussa, they don't want to go there anymore so we stay under and we still suffer!!! and that means slavery time just think we are free chains are still attached!! but is now free in a different jacket we are still not!! wake up!!!!
many of us have had to worry about our lives because of the word freedom, these are our real heroes.
Working together is the solution to solve everything in Africa and not to negotiate deals that do not benefit us. but that all countries within africa enter into cooperation and work together even better because it is all beautiful now shaking hands but let's really talk and make sure poverty in africa stop!!!!!.
I find this interesting how the western world portray Africa leaders looting especially from the France speaking countries but not investigate how France run the central banks of this countries and France benefit billions of dollars from it
Maybe kabila pissed them off some how. Since he made a deal with the current president (Felix) to replace him after one mandate, I believe outside players are using Felix to crush kabila chances of coming back. We can all see how Felix is bitching around those third parties like nobody's business. The population wanted change of regime and president, but still they are all the same.
Yah it's so obvious
Because we are in 2021 and the current thieving by African leaders is seriously impacting BLACK AFRICANS . So you lamenting about France theft a thousand years ago ain't fixing the current issues .
@@real8551 nobody is lamenting. We are in 2021, they are some of the major players in current politics through paternship. When your partners are not happy, feel played, what do you expect.
True
Jean Jacques Lumumba is a man of integrity like his grandfather. I didn't know integrity is genetic until today.
Hope his integrity stays if he ever gains real power.
It’s called epigenetics, everything you do in life writes itself in your DNA and gets passed down
I don’t think it has anything to do with genetics but rather strong values in one’s upbringing.
If the money is used very well, The Democratic Republic of the Congo could have been the richest country on earth, it has minerals and fertile soil, but sadly it suffers from corruption and political instability. The country's potential is simply wasted.
And the country has been looted since the colonial era but it's still filthy rich.
And the west and Europeans loves it that way.
Don't forget the colonialism
Congo has such rich history pre slavery/colonial time. And it breaks my heart to know that Congo never recovered from what King Leopold did, to colonialism to the assassination of Lumumba. Congo is the richest country in the world, everything we have from mobile phones, planes, TV, tablet etc are technically made/comes from Congo but majority live below below the poverty level or live war torn bit of the country. Plus the Ebola and covid pandemic and neo colonialism of western countries is just alot...
No one is rich if their wealth is measured by public funds.
I hear what you are saying,, you can imprison
The body but the mind is still free, UMM, I think
That in politics things don't go along those lines.
Have a good day,,,.
Africa needs more men like Jean Jacques Lumumba- a man of integrity!
Great documentary BBC!
Jean Jacques is not hero, Jean Jacque is just some who can use any narrative to get asylum to Europe
True trouble is he is not admired in Africa, did i just the locals carrying a senator literally God help Africans
The Congo story is very sad because the developed world runs of Congo's minerals but no one says anything about it's security or human rights.wars will never end as long as the so called UN and AU pretend to care but actually do nothing concrete about the situations.
UN armies the rebels to kill local people to take land that has raw materials
So you are blaming the UN and the AU for not preventing a tribal war.
That's so sad to see Congo's millions stolen by these vicious persons while most of the population strugling to make ends meet
And then be subjected to violence because of interference from foreign interest that are using the upheaval to rob the people of DRC of their own resources which ought to be optimised to uplift their lives.
The true vicious people are these BBC and all these western media and their imperialistic governments that have vowed to loot the African continent.
@@kalmbizi300 I could not agree more than I already do because they are responsible with others for what is happening in the DRC. Because they clearly put their heads together to get Kabila out of no where and made him president of the DRC
This man has been in power since the year I was born till I was 22 😭 like what the hell even is that!!!!
You have to value and love your own people before expecting outsiders to do it! Too many of us are for self and not for whole and that’s the problem!
DRC is supposed to be the richest country on earth. mention what your country has as mineral, they have it too. they are supposed to have the largest reserve of forest in the world but are now clearing all in the name of farming in what we call green desert. its more dangerous than brown or yellow desert. Oh Africa when cometh that leader?
Kabila AND family was one of the bad leader of Africa Congo, a friend of the internationalists. What a curse to the Afrikan grassroots.
Is it really millions or billions? Missing millions is an understatement of the riches of congo that is being siphoned on a daily basis.
Diamonds, gold, copper, uranium, 400yrs old trees wood, unique animals, oil,
The richest kountry in the world will never know peace
Too many outside grabbers plying their thieving ways thro local strongmen
Pity congo
Pity Afrika
Pity humanity
Vanity is the destruction of the soul
Poverty is indeed the destruction of the people
His billions is nothing compared to the British, and Belgian diamonds, art, rubber, precious metals stolen, and the genocide committed for centuries in Congo, let alone the assassinations.
Thank you
True but we can’t justify his failures as an African destroying his own country.
FOOL! We want the theft to stop not encourage it by saying so and so stole so let the stealing continue.
You need to do this kind of investigation on Zambia's former leader, we need to understand how he became rich overnight
Not just him every stupid leader of Africa and the West and Europe presidents that did deal with them but everybody corrupt so nothing gonna happen 2 them
Please do this investigation on swaziland King
Sorry to notice that you still do not understand the imperialists policy in Africa. Most of so called, African leaders are just puppets of those countries where BBC, RFI etc are established. Those countries are the ones that are killing all our true nationalist leaders and put in power their puppets easy to manipulate. Africans, learn to say NO to those western looters first!!!
@@kalmbizi300 Face the truth. Our leaders in Africa are just so greedy, corrupt, and selfish. Make no excuses for them or blame anyone else. With or without Western collaborators, they would still be wicked thieves. Period.
@@patrickjohnson4656 between the imperialists and African leaders, who are the most corrupt, selfish? In 80 years of colonization, can you give a figure of how much the Belgians took from the Congo? Their interference and choices of leaders are telling it all. I will never blame the puppets (African leaders) because behind them I see the true thieves: the western leaders and all these NGOs and media they manipulate day and night to discredit those who say no to their wish.
Why is this news please?🤔 Of all presidents in Africa, NO ONE is surprised that Joseph Kabila is corrupt 😂😂😂😂
Lool the sound effects of analysis are funny
very well said they be wasting our times while they are the one that help african leaders to hide money
True, but after 18 years of power, he left the government with nothing and still receive undeserved money from government. He said the country owes him more money. The dude want to bury Congolese people.
@@beautifulisyoursmile3955 this is hilarious ,despite what he stole hes asking for mores?
@@TRAVISTRILL yepp
🎥The full investigation is also now available to view in French here ➡️th-cam.com/video/rG6BshR4Y6g/w-d-xo.html
So the missing millions is the reason Congolese are so poor?? Please stop trying to tell me what to think....What is money???? Tell me about the final destination of Congolese Resources...we are not all shallow in Africa...
The resources would be still buried if it was not the outsiders doing something with it.Congolese sit on so much potential electricity and have no idea what to do with it until some outsider does something with it.Then say someones robbing africa.Where is the innovation?Why is congo not making the car batteries the phones the computers.They were first to make iron thousands of years ago and nothing since
Africa have been suffering and exploited,way far before the the 21st century its high time to wake up and unite for the greater good of the continent. May God bless Africa.
I know if you do an investigation on Nigeria the report might take a whole year but do Nigeria sometime please
What about the stolen art abjects, gold and that diamond on queen elizabeth's crown?
Returning that won't solve the courruption and poverty in Africa.
But it's definitely where the rot started from!
These thieves are simply following the precedent of Mobutu? The DRC has got an uphill battle against corruption. The citizens certainly deserve an effort by the govt. to improve their lives.🗿🌴
It is not only Congo. Africa as a whole with just a few not more than my five fingers 😭
0:29 wow, she's beautiful😍
Beautifully put together and informative documentary. It backs up every claim made. It has opened a door and shone a light into the darkest corners of corruption. Africa is rising and becoming aware of what its various leaders are up to. It’s the first tentative steps to sorting the problems and turning humanities womb into the amazing place it was meant to be. Some may find this documentary depressing, I find it fills me with hope. Apart from a few people who prefer to bury their head in the sand or blame the bogie man, this comments section is a model for how intelligent people should communicate; Americans could learn from this.
Oh Mother Africa, when will you heal yourself from the disease of corruption 😥
Great documentary! but unfortunately the back ground music takes out the seriousness of the documentary sounds like "desperate housewives" back ground music
I don't get why they do that. This is not a Halloween kid's show, it's pretty serious stuff to everyone involved and for the Congolese people.
Yes I agree 👍 the back ground music is an important factor in the information the journalist is trying to convey and this has completely ruined it 😑
so sad, we are suffering in congo because of some individuals
Please talk about the Moi and Kenyatta families who have looted Kenya for decades 🙏😢
Or the Musevenis in Uganda.
I would also love to see what they'd unearth. Meanwhile check out Looters and Grabbers by Joe Khamisi.
Ask them to talk about Emmanuel Macron, Sarkozy, Tony Blair.... why are you so keen on destroying and selling your own?
@@kalmbizi300 because taking down our rotten leaders benefits us directly. How is Sarkozy any of our concern??
@@kalmbizi300 Sarkozy and Co have already been covered exhaustively.
This is truly sad that we keep doing this to each other, but we know he didn't do this alone. This is The Most High exposing the deceptions of the dragon and the deception on His people the Bena Kongo!
Thanks BBC, I hope similar documentary can be carry on here in my country Liberia after the George Weah regime.
Thank you Jean Jacques Lumumba for the generational integrity .......i wish this family ruled the Congo RIP Patrice Lumumba a true African Hero.
That's why the Belgians quickly assassinated him.
We have seen this around Africa. Unpatriotic leaders colluding with multinational companies to siphoned their countries resources for self benefit. While majority of the population languished in poverty. This is sad and it needs to end.
now who are those multinational companies if not those same BBC, RFI ? Joseph Kabila is a nationalist who changed the mining law in the DR Congo by increasing the taxes paid by those multinationals. They all came to Congo to urge him to change the mini law in their favor but he said no. He hit where it hurts and t5hey are ready to make him pay back. Nothing else in that false reports of the enemy of africans.
This is unbearably painful, Seeing this selected few rugs bleeding a country’s resource just like that…we Africans need to stand up to this mafioso’s
cool and where are africans gonna get that money to finance uprisings??? You cant do anything unless you're willing to get your hands dirty .
Generally uprising just happen when people break. End SARS in Nigeria just happen no money was payed, enough youth got pissed to a certain threshold and they let Nigeria know exactly what they thought in mass. Basically when people realize they really have nothing left to loose, there's a lot more psychological freedom to gamble big. Worst case scenario your misery ends by death.
@@keegannunley5444 you're forgetting the amount of Nigerians that used social media to spread awareness to gain support from foreign powers to condemn Nigeria . Money wasn't used but international credibility was at stake
Better to fight and fall than to live without hope
@@awoudouhaman504 you can't fight if you're not willing to put your foot in muddy waters . No one in those positions have clean shoes
All these politicians look like they talk smart but the economy of the country is in absolute poverty . How can an individual rule a nation for 18 years and the poverty rate keeps on increasing. This should be a wake up call to people because the corruption is on plain sight
Do the people of the congo not vote for their president?It can be understood one term as as president but to be returned to that position time and time again is on the heads of the people.
OR people just did not know.
Great documentary, unfortunately this is the same story across many countries. Sad.
Kabila's father, the former President of the DRC Laurent Kabila, was famous for one sentence: "Ne jamais trahir le Congo" . Which literally means: "Never betray the Congo" . There are billboards everywhere in the country showing Kabila with this statement. However, very said to see that his son gave a s*** about it and his father's legacy and was only interested to fill his own pocket.
Adopted son
That kid killed kabila father as part of revenge. I don't think he has ever think of having any attachment to the country. He is like a colonialist. Only using the country for benefit. Since he is not that much welcome anywhere else, he is stuck with it.
Joseph Kabila abided by his father's statement"Never Betray the Congo". His ties with China, the change of the mining law "code minier", his decision to finance our national elections locally, his refusal of the World Bank and IMF funds.... made him the enemy #1 of the western, period. This report is just a way to black mail him, nothing else. Otherwise the BBC, RFI are the true corrupt media in the world the multi national companies are now using to discredit true African nationalists.
@@kalmbizi300 I'm sorry dear. I will disagree with you. The spirit of true African nationalist is not only about fighting outsiders, it's about maintaining your home too. Results are shown. Whether people publishing are corrupted or not, this is true. Cause hearing from Congolese themselves, they don't deny the facts, it has been going on for years and You, you claim they blackmail him!? Come on, wake up. Two years delay of elections, still a blackmail? While $25 millions to organize elections in 2016 was already available. Please check your facts.
@@kalmbizi300 if you're not aware, 19 medias are on his head. It's not just BBC, rfi.
So painful to see this President/people do not see the hardship their people suffer. They a so busy looting that they became blind to love and care for others. I hope they find happiness with their millions
My heart goes to the people of that country.
In the DRC presidents don’t run the day to day activities of the money. The National Assembly does. But. I understand why you might say that the president is directly attached to what is going on. Because he had the majority at the National Assembly. Therefore they were clearly responsible for any wrong doing everything linked back to the president’s circle
Ahh DRC, my beloved country. Thanks BBC and your collaborators to unearth this. Yes, we hope that one day, these revelations will help improve the country in the future...
There's not gonna be any sort of improvement without punishing criminals; African political leaders loot their country into poverty with absolute impunity and turn around asking why the country is not moving forward
All Congolese were supposed to stand against impunity for these enemy of the country. Otherwise, one day will always be one day. The country sides of DRC have no Roads, hospitals, schools, peace, security, etc...but stupid leaders get busy looting millions of dollars.
BBC will never give reporting that will benefit Africa, open your eyes. They want your raw minerals
Open your eyes, they don't care about you or your country... They're just paving the way for a regime change!
The next one is worst then this one what do you espect
What a wonderful and informative documentary. This sort of integrity will save Africa. Keep up the good fight!
Very informative but the music used in the documentary is highly inappropriate for such a serious matter.
It's sad that people of the world's most mineral rich country live in absolute poverty do to corrupt government.
I have never seen a honest leader in our continent Never all of them in prison or dead or left ther country and prosecuted by icj THIS most Stop with our generation!!!!
well Rwanda, Ghana,Botswana leaders are good, these countries are developing quickly because of good leadership. Botswana use to be one of the poorest in Africa, but they have manage to make more progress than most African Countries. No country is perfect, but if a country is progressing that's a good sign of good leadership.
@@MsB405 maybe Ghana had some good leaders but those others Gdp dont mean nothing becuese they should even do better of ther smal population and btw have same leadrs of decades wich is even worst.
Don't forget the president of Kenya," Uhuru Kenyatta". He has billions hidden in off shore accounts. Even he tried to do a Kabila, "change the constitution". It is interesting what happens in Congo two or so years it happens in Kenya.
No doubt uhuru has amassed his wealth from control of gold and diamonds in Kenya. Destroying the country,killing those opposed to him,owns and controls all the banks.
@@rubysailor9186 Good observation. You are right his father took a Gold mine and gave it to his wife, mama Ngina Kenyatta.
So Kenya 🇰🇪 doesn’t nationalise the country’s resources?
I think you live in Africa. the corruption is in every sector of the economy. The parliament is reluctant to pass laws that matter so that they can keep on stealing. Nationalizing is a good option but you know Jomo Kenyatta was a ruthless leader whereby he grabbed anything he wished of value. I will compare him to Mobutu Seseko. A lot of wealth is now offshore. The Pantora papers mentioned it. The parliament is quiet. afraid to say anything.
I'm not surprised that my country Kenya is not forgotten in the world list of shame 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The DRC is sitting on natural resources that nobody can actually put a value on until they get up from their arses and develop it. What is the point in crying over something stolen which there is little chance of getting back. That country has been in turmoil since the colonialists withdrew. Self enriching tyrant leaders have taken that country backwards instead of forward. For starters get that hydro electric power plant going. That could be beginning of upliftment in the lives of the people and the energy required to develop that country.India experienced similar shit but they have put that in past and are moving ahead. India is now one of the the top10 most industrialised countries in the world. What the DRC needs is a good stable government, not self enriching tyrants.
Best comment. Thoughtful and intelligent.
Congolese musician Kilebu talked about this very subject in is song Bolaki Ngai-the rich get richer and the poor poorer
Thank you sister for this report for the New afrikan awakening generation.
Congos missing millions, well where's the IMF, the World Bank, the United nations, and the colonizers
They want Congo. If it take them millions to buy that countries back, they wouldn't care less. So when Congo want more, they give and trap their leaders with debts. They give millions and get back billions.
Journalism has really evolved...this is sophisticated with a lot of information and this will help me a lot to teach my students. Please do same for my country Cameroon. Thanks
unbelievable if Africans still rely on such fake information. You are from Cameroon and I am form the Congo. In that report there is nothing else than hate of an individual. Joseph Kabila. a Young leader who defeated the western world by His ties with China, the change of the mining law "code minier", his decision to finance our national elections locally in 2018, his refusal of the World Bank and IMF funds.... All these made him the enemy #1 of the western, period.
If Paul Biya is quiet in power despite the cries of the population, it is simply because he is not resisting the imperialists who are looting the country. The day he will oppose those imperialists that's the day he will be toppled from power. Joseph Kabila, for 18 years, they imposed him civil wars in the eastern part of the country while they kept looting natural resources until today!!
@@kalmbizi300 for 18years as president he embezzled 13 billion euros from his country and it's still been used in building the French economy while he makes interest out of it and same as Paul biya of Cameroon. Do you even know what's going on in Cameroon for the more than 5years now with the Anglophone crisis and how Paul biya is handling the situation ? No you don't and don't tell it's all western influence cause it isn't and kabila never changed the situation of the country especially education and health care system
@@sedrickhamani7843 you should take time to learn foreign policy. It seems you have no clue of what the imperialists have as plan for Africa.
You have mentioned 18 years of Joseph Kabila in power. But, you do not even know how he found the country in 2001. To refresh your memory, here are the facts: When Joseph Kabila takes transitional power in 2001, the country was divided in 3. The rebels were in control of the whole North-West and Eastern parts of the country and this for years!!! Jean Pierre Mbemba backed by Uganda army controlled the North -East regions while RCD Azarias Ruberwa backed by Rwanda controlled the Eastern part. Joseph Kabila had to fight to unify the country the way you have it today!! During those decades of civil wars, you only see Kabila embezzling funds and not all these puppets used by the western world to destabilize the country in order to have full control of its economy.
If Paul Biya is still in power it's not because he is a democrat loved by his people. It's because he he is a good stepping-stone for the imperialists and your corrupt media. BBC and RFI....
Joseph Kabila is black mailed because he said, "NO" to neocolonialism agenda.
@@kalmbizi300 bc he is corrupt. corruption is the door for everything bad a country could face. Paul Miya did nothing for Cameroon. I guess you've never lived in the developed society where you'll understand if a country is rich in natural resources directly means its citizens live a high standard of life.
@@karenbuenavista3986 I am in the USA in the State of Kansas; graduated in the USA; working in the USA. So you know!
Really this is most African presidents, Djibouti has similar one he and his family are extremely rich. they basically own all big businesses. Every local person know what happening but they don’t have power to talk. And 70% of population are very poor.
Such an investigation should be done for Zambia’s former president Edgar Chagwa Lungu
Started long ago with Kaunda.
We love you sis keep hustling and bring them skills back to bag for generational wealth Building look forward to collaborating with you in the future.
The current African problems have their roots in psychology. Extreme oppression endured by Africans over centuries is unparalleled no wonder they are this broken. The perpetual evils performed against Africans by colonialists have never been experienced by any other nation on earth, these kind of atrocities never happened in Asia (China or Japan for example). Africans lost their being when their natural evolution and cultural practices were stopped dead on their tracks by the colonial projects. The modern day African is scrambling of what's left of their culture which little success in a global environment that is heavily dominated by the western culture while the deliberate colonial setup still widely exists in African countries and continues to benefit the former colonizers. We are forever colonized...😢😒
There is still hope!
it's not only DRC
But ours is DRC is worse.
What is wrong with us. We need to change. I see most African countries blaming others but we are the problem our selves 🤦🏿♂️What this past regime did was pure evil
what is true is what those multi nationals are doing in the eastern part of our country. They are fueling civil wars. While we are killing ourselves, they are helping themselves. Believe me, you will think of Kabila one day when you will see Ituri being part of Uganda or Rwanda by the will of these imperial countries that have vowed to rule over africans.
Please also make a document on Fishrot in Namibia
20:58 unfortunately, in any country in Africa...
Kabila compared to Museveni is small pocket change, Museveni gambled the whole country to the Chinese... go figure!
But M7 is cunning. His name has never directly been implicated in international corruption..like the papers leaked by Wikileaks...it's his associates like Kuteesa who do the dirty work..
Same issues in Ghana. Same schemes. Africa is doomed and it is not even surprising.
So, did the Kabila's overthrow Mobutu so that they can do the looting of Congolese coffers for, and by themselves?
His "so called father" didn't steal anything he actually improved the economy. For example in Just 3 years of his father's reign 1 dollar was equivalent to 4Franc Congolais, food imports declined, corruption declined. But he was assassinated by Americans in complicity with The Rwandan and Ugandan government who are like the Watchmen hired by the West to loot Congo as they finance wars and instability in Congo especially in the East where all the strategic minerals for technology and electric cars. Such things never came out because he was a loyal US puppet until they decided to force elections in 2018 to impose another puppet in a rigged election Felix Tshisekedi because Kabila gave exclusive mining rights to China and the US didn't like it just like his father did when he sold Uranium to the North Koreans. In conclusion guys this is being spoken about because Americans just wanna get rid of him as usual like they did to Mobutu because he's no longer useful.
@@nathanvladmir5554 true insight
Unasemaje
Mobutu was worse. They're all Criminal gangsters
Mans changed so much since I was reading about him in newswatch magazine. Smh. African leaders
Congo's missing millions are in Belgium.
And how about BBC's home country of UK also hive back all the artwork and artifacts that are stolen and displayed in British museums which are missing from Africa too?
Africa we need to overhaul our leadership. Africa union is a big disappointment.
It dawned on me after watching this video for 1:42, that I'm watching BBC news. I then stopped immediately.
It's called investigative journalism on say their behalf...?? They want to find out what you know about them...
The same goes for South Africa. Billions of Rands that was meant for the upliftment of the poor and for the maintenance of the infrastructure has just miraculously disappeared. Nobody is held to account, nobody gets prosecuted and certainly, nobody goes to prison. In 28 years they have destroyed the most powerful and prosperous country that took 370 years to build. Now the country is teetering on collapse. What is it about Africa??? 53 countries of which none are prosperous and will for ever be known as a "developing" countries. What, I ask myself is the common denominator? Well the Congo is just another example.
All the money ends up in the European and USA banks!
A sheep spends its entire life fearing the wolves, only to be eaten by the shepherd in the end.
This is so sad
Such a beautiful lady
Finally the documentary is here🤗
I want figures of how much Frans and Western countries are benefiting and what contracts do they have
I wonder who the culprits will be if the title was "Congo's missing TRILLIONS"
Hint: you are staring at one of the channels from which the culprits are.
The narrator talks too much.
Why can't she let the people talk?
Anyway, good information.
Congo will be a Great country they find a good leader. Surprisingly Congo is rich in numerous resources but because we are being used (by European countries and Westerners) to fight against ourselves.we are destabilizing our economy,Peace and stability.May almighty God rescue CONGO
Pa Lease the failure of the congo is upon the shoulders on the congolese the west cannot take advantage of what isn't broken. Ya'll blaming the west when corruption is up to the individual.
TH-cam : Monumental corruption in Africa
Me: * jaw drops*
These people are stealing money, but if they would invest in their people they would make even more money. Africa don't know what real money is. All of these African Governments have to create infrastructure - this creates jobs. Jobs increase the tax base, a middle class will develop and create demand for goods and services, which will create more jobs and create a thriving economy. The people at the top who invest in this burgeoning economy would be extremely wealth and wouldn't have to always depend on Europe and China. I'm tired of seeing these corruption stories.
Joseph Kabila reminded me of The Manchurian Candidate. Who was it really who had his father (who I doubt he liked) assassinated? Those charged and found guilty - Col Penda and his co-accused - always denied they had played any role in that strange event of Jan. 16, 2001.
His father was killed by kadogo hired by rwandan intelligence service , by order of James Kabarebe .
Add forces with Ugandans opposition to clean this triangle of corruption. Congo is destroying our country Uganda by being used by Museveni. Kabila was Museveni’s conduit.
Yes indeed a mission to enrich yourself.
Please do Malawi next!!!
BBC should be the last vessel to talk about Africa's corruption menace. Imagine a rapist telling you about rape?????
And this is only the top of the iceberg.
Am waiting to hear what they say about the corporations meddling and causing these types of corrupt environment.the French troops making sure the soft war works!!
i absolutely love this!!! bringing some of the corruption happening in my country to light
M not surprised it’s Congo...nothing surprising here....
Who control's (SWIFT ) large sums of money don't move from point A to B with out certain Parties knowing! If the gate keeper;s want to stop this sort of behavior's it can be stopped. However they don't want to !
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My name is Biram S Jobe watching from The Gambia
BBC should be inspecting British business and banks.
I am sure they do but this is about DRCongo 🇨🇩
@@theonly6359 it should be about the UK. The epicentre of corruption
@@chrisdot9914 and we should ignore the activities of your leaders??
@@theonly6359 your leaders are the chief thieves
Ilove the fact that the presentator is a beautiful women Congolese .
These African leaders (with the exception of Paul Kagame) are such an embarrassment!
BBC reporting on congos finances because they care about the wellbeing of Congolese people? Interesting
So.? The BBC may have it's interests..but atleast they provide documentary evidence and if anyone implicated thinks it's false..they can sue the BBC..but they won't because it is true...these Africans are no better than the colonialists they replaced
@@Afrorack whether the news is true or false is another subject on its own. When BBC reports badly about Russian leadership in Russia as they always do, or AL Jazeera Reports badly about what's leadership in Israel do yu think they give a.f about the well being of its citizens or they just sabotaging leadership continously so the leadership of that country can loose support and they can come in and destabilize the country by stealing 100x as much and also enslave people of that country?
@@CongoTalks243 the best thing you can do when an outsider tells you something bad about a family member is cover your ears. It doesn't matter whether they right or wrong, what matters is that they breaking the bonds that hold the family together. What happened to minding your own business. Let the family members resolve their conflict amongst themselves. You don't hear African news reporting about western leadership... And that's definitely not because they perfect
I would like to see an investigative documentary of stolen African artefacts and their worth and the transactions that our colonial fathers did in Africa.
Several documentaries have been done on this topic: It's not difficult to find them, if you really want to inform yourself on this issue.
@@easyware Yes that is true, we are all aware that they are available online and even broadcasted. However they all have the same type of narrative and streamlined approach to covering the truth.
How about a change In Perspective, and enlightenment in this regard. All of them have the same « colonial description of discovery, and inquisitiveness of the west to uncover the unknown world » and then boom, reconciliation and democracies emerged..
There’s more to it than that!
So yes, we are very much informed about it thanx.
I'd like to attend the Business School that African leaders go to once they attain power that transforms them to become great businessmen. You name any African leader that doesn't become a billion after becoming President. This school should be included in the Ivy League list.
Totally off topic but Jean Jacques got that super villain sexiness going for him.
Kabila alone. Let’s talk about the Congo forest that has been invaded by France and UK.