CORRECTION: At 11:18, when explaining the genocide in Rwanda, we say that “One ethnic group had turned against another. The Hutu majority against a ruling Tutsi minority." This is not correct: In fact, though the Tutsis were the more powerful group before and during the colonial era in Rwanda, Hutus were in charge of the country at the time of the genocide. We apologize for the error. Thank you to @PatrickCyusa-q2k for pointing out our unfortunate mistake.
That is why we are tired of seeing foreign people have to tell the story that they don't leave but only lessen, today DRC is in war against invasions of Rwanda and Uganda (supported by the oxidizing buyers of minerals and which finances the wars) which have always caused the instability of the country to profit from its minerals through the complicity of certain traitorous Congolese. We already know the story, that in the war in the DRC, the enemy Rwanda received armed assistance from the French, Americans... and we are not surprised. CONGO IS THE HOPE OF TODAY AND TOMORROW FOR THE WORLD.
@@SoSoSango You need to correct yourself, you are misinformed. Hutu and Tutsi are one large community divided that has been came from political and economical hierarchy.
still with corrections all is not right. unfortunate.. how many will reach out to this comment and how many would look into documenatry for rewanda genocide.
Resources like armed groups and mines outstrip what ordinary people can do. It should be sobering to realize your rights and my rights are precarious when we idolize people who prioritize wealth above all real good things.
@@unatwomey7112 The misery in what is now DRC didn't start with mining, but reaches far back into history. Armed groups of (mostly local) ivory and slave traders had been raiding and looting the territory for centuries.
You might be angry by my previous comment. But I ask you if you only let Europe and America benefit from a corrupt government, after killing the only person that could have saved the country, then where is Africa going? At least Rwanda is an African country so its better.
It’s both remarkable and unsettling how the unchecked greed of a single individual can shift the course of an entire nation’s future for generations to come.
Three economists just won the Nobel Prize this year for pointing out that functional institutions are the difference between a successful economy and a non-successful one. The DRC needs well functioning institutions: A legal system that is upheld by a judicial system, that is protected by a police and security force, that is upheld by a representative system, that is upheld by the legal system. Unfortunately, every so often, personal human desires get in between these systems before they have a chance to grow and become a part of the culture. No one can expect any country without these systems to suddenly create them overnight, but the first small steps have to be taken, and after that, more small steps. This can take decades, or even centuries.
It will be very hard for these countries to build any resilience and self-defense capacity as long as their resources continue to support the entire western economy. Yes, African leaders with low sense of self-identity and self-esteem are easy to bribe. However, we all should know the constant pressures and manipulation tactics placed by the west in order to continue to extract wealth into their economies.
@@pedroroque8681, Well said, the first step in getting most African countries out of this mess is for the west to leave Africa alone. Thanks to BRICS that's bringing some level of hope to African countries
Correct. Natural resources have nothing at all to do with wealth. Cavemen would have been the richest people in history, if it had something to do with resources. Oil sat under the ground of the poorest people in the world until it was mined. Singapore is probably the richest, and has no resources.
@@mysteriousdude280 Yeah: lets put the cart in front of the horse! What a bizarre idea. I wouldn't be surprised to read that this comes from a place where there hasn't been a culture of enlightenment for any relevant time.
E.U. industrial giant countries like Germany France and Italy only want the materials to flow at minimal pricing, human rights for the Congolese is a mere gesture and afterthought. Rich in resources has been a curse on Africa and a blessing to Europe.
Leaders of many countries sign over their citizens' chance for better life. Looking at the facts of "strongman" leaders, many take and keep power by violence & deceit. Dignity their bloated 💰 💰 , luxury mansions, vehicles, private jet.
Another one of the many myths - this time from the fairy story book "King Leopold's Ghost". It is however symptomatic of a greater problem. When you blame other, imaginary forces beyond your control for your own problems, you don't address the real problems.
As Africans we are provided with destructions like wars, sunctions, useless social policies, corrupt governments and other hopeless policies , so that we can focus on those while our resources are being looted. That's why people fight and at the same time don't know what they're really fighting for. The system is too rigged that people fight for things they can't benefit. Leaders cause disputes and instruct the armies and people to attack one another while living their best lives, busy travelling to other countries, building mansions in foreign countries and sleeping in hotels. I wish there will come a day whereby these leaders are given their own battlefields to fight for what they create coz as people we are done from being exploited by these so called leaders and governments.
As Africans, we mostly had something like 60+ years time to set things straight. Some did, like Botswana. Others didn't, but even continue now, decades later, to blame our failures onto something that was toppled, long ago. *only 30 years in the case of South Africa and 34 years in Namibia, but otherwise mostly 6 decades.
@@arvidsfar1580 True but I also disagree at some point because normally when people look at developments, they focus on the infrastructures and roads in the cities and towns that is the CBDs. People don't look at where african majority are living (as in their homes). For example if you go to South Africa, majority are living in shacks but the cities and roads are on point. Their economy seems to be better than most of the other African countries but most of the staff is expensive e.g clothes in malls, Tertiary education etc. I know people would say they have programs like NASFAS which help them pay fees but remember they only help a few and there's nepotism and corruption in those programs. The system was never changed, it was just upgraded. We thought, we fought for our freedom but the freedom was given to us as a way to improve the system. We are still colonised but now in a better way. We can't controll markets or trade yet we are the ones with goods. Most African countries have huge debts which they owe to their colonisers as a token of appreciation for being colonised. Up to now Africa has no permanent seat in the UN yet it's the backborne of the world. It seems like nothing was toppled but just an upgrade of the system so that looting and corruption could be done peacefully and smoothly.
@@takudzwagamba1119 Mostly agreed, but no country other than the victors of WW2 (PR China, France, Russia, UK, US) has a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
DRC needs to first of all chase away all the foreign mining companies and secondly chase away all the embassies and international bodies in the Congo, then build a large Army to defend their territory by so doing they need to promote industrialisation, Infrastructure and Agriculture. Congo needs a leader like Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso.
Mineral richness: correct. Climate: disastrous and home to some of the most devastating breeding grounds of fatal and maiming diseases, to this day. Fertile soils: The opposite is true, except for the conflict-ridden eastern provinces. The shame is a culture of endemic corruption and violence which dates back long before the arrival of western colonial powers and the almost complete lack of good governance principles, for centuries.
60 years later and you're still blaming Europeans. Have you no shame? The problem with Congo is it's people. It would've been a prosperous nation if it wasn't populated by them
@@PhylistarLangata hush it. You think after independence Europeans just went home? The ones who killed Congolese leaders and replaced them with dictators like mobutu. Did not leave. They stuck around to cause chaos and they are still there refusing to leave. There have been bloody protests for them to leave but they keep making excuses for them to stay.
@@PhylistarLangata you think 60 years Europeans have left congo alone? You think The ones who killed Lumumba and replaced him with a dictator mobutu left congo alone for 60 years? Mchwee. Mbwa.
Let Congo people enjoy their blessed natural resources. Why are world big power countries exploiting poor Congo people? Instead of exploiting poor people, help and raise them up.
Paul Kagame is the only non-idiotic African president that cares for his country's development. He's not the bad guy, just that DRC doesn't have such a leader.
As someone who has been to Congo 1000% agree! Had to pay a bribe from a POLICE OFFICER just to get to my hotel from the airport. Grimmy place but beautiful scenery
before blaming DRC's neighboring countries blame their corrupted government that have failed to build modern army to protect its territory and its people, without security do not expect any development
Have you ever wonder why their military became weak post Mobutu when they actually had a capable military, probably the strongest in region during his time ? here is a clue , SANCTIONS, you don't have to guess by who . Their military was purposely weaken for obvious reasons. they weren't allowed to purchase any military hardware for over decades now on international market under the threat of even more sanctions. Those sanctions were only lifted like 3 or 4 years ago under a deal negotiated by angola president if I remember correctly.
putting Rwanda in the western design misery of the DRC is to distract the Africans to not question the real roots caused of the mess in the DRC, Rwanda didn't kill Lumumba nor propping up Mobutu, offloading the misery of Congo to Rwanda is purely ignorance of the highest order.
@billykash491 The Congo has been in turmoil ever since outsiders set foot there. By "outsiders," I mean those who are not African. If you care about history, you may know that there were kingdoms before these artificial borders were created, and they got along quite well back then. However, Europeans decided to merge Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi into one country with a single currency based in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa). Later, the Belgians turned Congo into the personal property of their king. When the Congolese rose up, chased away the colonizers, and gained independence, their leader, Lumumba, was dissolved in acid with the help of the father of the the actual president of Congo. They handed the country to Mobutu, who did not truly care about Congo and ensured that the West received everything they needed at the expense of the Congolese people-a situation that continues to this day. Saying that the mess in Congo started because of the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda is a profound ignorance. If you know about King Leopold II of Belgium, you would be aware that he killed more than 20 million natives to pave the way for Congo to become a piece of Europe. Shortly before independence, Congo was an entity created by Europeans in the heart of Africa, built on the suffering of Congolese,Rwandans&Burundians who labored hard to enrich Europe and West. Blaming the mess in the Congo on Rwanda is pure racism and ignorance of the highest order.
@@gahangwasteve8789 during mobutus raign DRC was not rich but it did not have a war. The comment above is right. The mess in the DRC is thanks to the rwandais and their tribal wars which they exported to the DRC.
This is why I hesitated buying a PS5 earlier this year. As a gamer who's bought many devices for my hobby over the years, this feels terrible to watch, but it's something we should know about.Goes without saying, those metals should profit the people of DRC, not Chinese/EU/US companies and corrupt politicians.
The point of my comment was not to take a moral high ground nor to tell others to stop using devices. Me not mentioning computers and phones doesn’t mean I don’t acknowledge them as part of the problem. Of course I know those also contain rare metals, but in modern society it’s very difficult to live without using them. Consumption of these products doesn’t mean we cannot criticize the production of their raw materials.
I mentioned gaming gear specifically because that's MY personal achilles heel in my electronic consumption. I'm actively following news about upcoming consoles and I'm very likely to buy them once games I'm interested about stop releasing on previous systems. But when it comes to computers, phones and TVs, I always use them as long as they work. The desktop PC I'm typing on has served me for seven years, the TV I use with consoles is almost a decade in use and the I Phone 7 been in my pocket for five years. Being more sustainable with those is much easier for me, as I already said I only update them when they stop working and I already decided to buy my next phone used. My personal future goal is to apply those aforementioned more sustainable choices, compromises and restraints to my gaming console consumption. If only the truly most ethical of us (the people who don't consume ANYTHING containing DR Congolese metals) were allowed to criticize the production of these ores, then pretty much no one in developed countries could ever call out the injustices of mining companies and politicians, because the metals are used even in the production of electricity itself, and living without power is almost impossible without moving in a cave/forest. I hope my point is understood better now. I guess I should have included this essay with my original comment.
It is the richest country in the world. However, it has poor people and this is not new. It is a problem that plagues many nations on the African Continent.
Yet we have many pan africanists who blame Europe for the destruction of congo mean while there are many east african countries that are destabilizing congo as well. 😢
@@CarsonSingclere which Congolese wants it to continue? Mbwa. For you to allow something you must want it to happen. Show me that Congolese who wants congo to suffer.
You forgot or hidden the role of UN which also has been caught involved in smuggling congolese resources. Also the fact that you hide the main hands of US and Belgium whivh are the ones that killed Lumumba(not his opponents like you tried to imply to hide the real role of westerners) in the past and today and try to make Rwanda the biggest blame is raising questions about the motive behind the whole story.
The DRC people should listen each other's otherwise you will continue to be playground for other nations! Please stop fighting and listen to each other, your plates are full.
Efforts are underway to relieve the suffering. Techniques have been developed to replace cobalt with iron and phosphorus-based materials which do not come from the congo.
It is not the resource curse that is the problem, the people are. I kid you not, if DRC Congo was full of the Saudis or the Europeans, it would be a super power. The problem is not even Rwanda, Rwanda is too small for a DRC Congo if well managed. If a strong well meaning leader surrounded by strong allies emerges in DRC, even Rwanda would fear interfering but so long as the people in DRC are corrupt, the nonsense will continue
It's all about foreign interference, Congolese allowed themselves to be used as instruments in destabilising and destroying their country, Remember Patrice Lumumba Killing.
@@josh_mpoyi Most everyone is a crook, there. But isn't he the crook who brought a bit of peace, stability, and even welfare to his region? Look at what happened, not just in the East, but also in Bas-Congo or in the Grand Kasaï.
The China deal money was not completely lost in corruption. Majority of it was just not paid by Chinese. As simple as that. I would close all the mines if I was the leader of DRC. Let the prices go up and sell carefully.
2:23 Fun fact 24 trillion dollar 💵 worth 😮 mineral value ! ? Not a use reason criminal politics unstable politics crony capitalism and civil war under devloped and developing countries mostly reason
8:00 enslaving your brothers, sisters, children, neighbors and friends for coca cola makes it hard not to see that person as anything more than a monkey in a fancy suit.
Honestly I don't see why they bring up Rwanda in Congolese problems. Rwanda imports legally minerals from congo at a low price, process them (add value) then sale them legally to westerners and Persian Gulf countries.
"D" as in DR Congo stands for what it is critically not.DRC is neither democratic nor a republic, in spite of its constitution. First and foremost, the Congo is nowhere near democratic. Any autocrat, in the neighbouring countries: Show me the "benevolent" approach, please.
African countries have been colonized by the West for over 100 years and still very poor . China is trying another approach at present by building Schools , Railways , factories & other Infrastructure projects on their behalf , instead of giving money directly to their Gov’t officials . These will ensure that ordinary people will be able to prosper together with all the development ……
@@takudzwamazwienduna Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, is just across the river from DRC's capital Kinshasa. And in spite of the people speaking the same languages (Kikongo, Lingala, French) it is a very different life situation on either side.
China should help with infrastructure and governance together with the military in DRC. Chinese PLA military has no experience in real combat so DRC Congo is a great warzone for the PLA to get proper real combat experience.
Rwanda, but mostly Batutsi and their relatives on the DRC side (eg, Banyamulenge) are still being seen as "natural enemies" among small, but very vocal voices, elsewhere in DRC. It sometimes comes down to people herding cattle (literally: Batutsi) being taken as enemies. Even among allegedly educated people in the capital.
I am looking in the comments section, where people will blame Nigeria…😂😂😂…you know even though each country has its internal issues, people seem to blame Nigeria for everything.
I would never blame Nigeria but if Nigeria were to be operated at its full potential it would strike fear into the other African countries and rogue groups running around. Nigeria should be the superpower of Africa
Congo is too big to be effectively governed. It’s current size renders it unviable as a state. We all know that the long term solution to the Congo problem is it’s balkanization. Congo is the Yugoslavia of Africa.
DRC's size has nothing to do with current war in East. Shift uper your brainstorming, you will find out the real issue on global need for rare minerals to recover the planet from it's Weaker and Undiversified economy! Adding to this, DRC is Victim after so many countries among which we might find Liberia, Angola and soon we will know the next in line as global need continue to rise and the battles on resources control to patching ways to the new KNOWLEDGE and GREEN Economies for which DR Congo is championing all the planet in term of Resources to lead these new economic models everyone's relay heavily on earth. To your appreciation and impartialy expressing, Congolese scholar leadership and expertise in governance align among the top 5 in African continent. It's an internationally and deliberately wronged and weakened Nation to purposely take advantage of it. By the way DRC is not the biggest country on this little planet!
This is clearly untrue. Especially including people from 'Grand Kasaï' and the Bas-Congo militias. Have you actually ever been to DR Congo, recently? If so, when, where, and for how much time? I'm fed uo with this type of pseudo-experts who have never spent more than a lovely holiday in one of Kinshasa's CBD hotels.
@@arvidsfar1580 But what do you believe motivates most western media to reduce nearly everything to the two territories where the m23 is? Why are they so careful to avoid or minimize discussion not only of the 'Grand Kasaï' and the Bas-Congo militias that you mention, but also the mayhem in the provinces of Mai-Ndombe, Ituri, and Tanganyika?
Even if the Congolese people elect the right person, it doesn’t mean that the problem is resolved. They may end up repeating the same actions against their new leader that they took against their former Prime Minister, Lumumba.
trying to put the supposed support of DRC to a couple of 10s of hutu extremists and Rwanda's well documented (by the UN) support of 1000s of M23 troops which has displaced more than a 1,000,000 people on the same footing is absolutely insane
Congo needs a leader with the spirit pre Bukele, brain's of pre Xi & the power of pre Putin with a heart of former Uruguayan pre Alberto "pepe" mujica cardono
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CORRECTION: At 11:18, when explaining the genocide in Rwanda, we say that “One ethnic group had turned against another. The Hutu majority against a ruling Tutsi minority." This is not correct: In fact, though the Tutsis were the more powerful group before and during the colonial era in Rwanda, Hutus were in charge of the country at the time of the genocide. We apologize for the error. Thank you to @PatrickCyusa-q2k for pointing out our unfortunate mistake.
Correct yourself again please. There were Hutu and Tutsis Kingdoms. Better check the history.
That is why we are tired of seeing foreign people have to tell the story that they don't leave but only lessen, today DRC is in war against invasions of Rwanda and Uganda (supported by the oxidizing buyers of minerals and which finances the wars) which have always caused the instability of the country to profit from its minerals through the complicity of certain traitorous Congolese.
We already know the story, that in the war in the DRC, the enemy Rwanda received armed assistance from the French, Americans... and we are not surprised.
CONGO IS THE HOPE OF TODAY AND TOMORROW FOR THE WORLD.
@@SoSoSango You need to correct yourself, you are misinformed. Hutu and Tutsi are one large community divided that has been came from political and economical hierarchy.
still with corrections all is not right. unfortunate.. how many will reach out to this comment and how many would look into documenatry for rewanda genocide.
So by Your Logic Tutsi are now in Charge of the country? REPLY TO THIS.
Because it's people: and not resources that determine a country's fortunes.
Resources like armed groups and mines outstrip what ordinary people can do. It should be sobering to realize your rights and my rights are precarious when we idolize people who prioritize wealth above all real good things.
Exactly this. 100% Tell me about the vast resources of the Luxembourgh, the Swiss, the Japanese and the Dutch.
@@unatwomey7112 The misery in what is now DRC didn't start with mining, but reaches far back into history. Armed groups of (mostly local) ivory and slave traders had been raiding and looting the territory for centuries.
@@incurableromantic4006 invest in people & the people will invest in the country.
I think the issue is deeper than that statement. Other factors are at play here
Shame on the African neighbours benefiting from the misery of their own brothers. Shame on you!!
@kajilai, true it's so hurting & unfortunate 😢
Same within
M7 and Kagame are puppets if the west but act like angels in Africa
Look, its better it stay in Africa than just outsiders benefiting. The government was corrupt and doesn't have resources to maintain a good army.
You might be angry by my previous comment. But I ask you if you only let Europe and America benefit from a corrupt government, after killing the only person that could have saved the country, then where is Africa going? At least Rwanda is an African country so its better.
What about the UN planes which were carrying Gold
Most problem comes from looting
@@learningisfun5163 And Africans allowed it to happen
Tell us more
Where's your evidence russian bot?
One Word, Corruption.
Poor country means corruption
One word, the west
What causes corruption?
It’s both remarkable and unsettling how the unchecked greed of a single individual can shift the course of an entire nation’s future for generations to come.
Three economists just won the Nobel Prize this year for pointing out that functional institutions are the difference between a successful economy and a non-successful one. The DRC needs well functioning institutions: A legal system that is upheld by a judicial system, that is protected by a police and security force, that is upheld by a representative system, that is upheld by the legal system. Unfortunately, every so often, personal human desires get in between these systems before they have a chance to grow and become a part of the culture. No one can expect any country without these systems to suddenly create them overnight, but the first small steps have to be taken, and after that, more small steps. This can take decades, or even centuries.
People won a nobel prize for that this year? We studied that in MBA school 15 years ago.
@@cztober3085 😆
It will be very hard for these countries to build any resilience and self-defense capacity as long as their resources continue to support the entire western economy. Yes, African leaders with low sense of self-identity and self-esteem are easy to bribe. However, we all should know the constant pressures and manipulation tactics placed by the west in order to continue to extract wealth into their economies.
@@pedroroque8681, Well said, the first step in getting most African countries out of this mess is for the west to leave Africa alone. Thanks to BRICS that's bringing some level of hope to African countries
Correct. Natural resources have nothing at all to do with wealth.
Cavemen would have been the richest people in history, if it had something to do with resources.
Oil sat under the ground of the poorest people in the world until it was mined. Singapore is probably the richest, and has no resources.
DRC needs a functioning government and military.
And a free press, beyond Radio Okapi.
@@arvidsfar1580 First strengthen the state before you start giving out rights
@@mysteriousdude280 Yeah: lets put the cart in front of the horse!
What a bizarre idea. I wouldn't be surprised to read that this comes from a place where there hasn't been a culture of enlightenment for any relevant time.
@@mysteriousdude280Soviet’s did the same thing
Don't they have an arms embargo? They can't have a serious military because of that...and guess who benefits from that?
E.U. industrial giant countries like Germany France and Italy only want the materials to flow at minimal pricing, human rights for the Congolese is a mere gesture and afterthought. Rich in resources has been a curse on Africa and a blessing to Europe.
Leaders of many countries sign over their citizens' chance for better life. Looking at the facts of "strongman" leaders, many take and keep power by violence & deceit. Dignity their bloated 💰 💰 , luxury mansions, vehicles, private jet.
Don't forget that African countries without resources are equally poor.
Congolese resources were a blessing to europe once, now its a blessing to China and Rwanda. But you people are to gullible to understand that.
Many countries in Europe are ressource-rich and extremly wealthy, such as Norway.
@@Bastille9513 what natural resources does Europe have?
King Leopold killed between 15-20 million Congolese which was more than half of the population that time.
5 to 6 million. Mobutu and civil wars killed the rest
Another one of the many myths - this time from the fairy story book "King Leopold's Ghost".
It is however symptomatic of a greater problem. When you blame other, imaginary forces beyond your control for your own problems, you don't address the real problems.
@@tonycatmanthe Congo is a country😂it’s not a person
@@lowdpacks7874 The OP was a person 😂.They are not a country
That has nothing to do with this topic
Good documentary ❤❤
I prayed the circle of exploitation in the Congo comes to an end.with a good leadership.
My heart is broken to watch those tragedies.
while you are on your smart phone?
Great work. Thanks for the basic facts reporting
As Africans we are provided with destructions like wars, sunctions, useless social policies, corrupt governments and other hopeless policies , so that we can focus on those while our resources are being looted. That's why people fight and at the same time don't know what they're really fighting for. The system is too rigged that people fight for things they can't benefit. Leaders cause disputes and instruct the armies and people to attack one another while living their best lives, busy travelling to other countries, building mansions in foreign countries and sleeping in hotels. I wish there will come a day whereby these leaders are given their own battlefields to fight for what they create coz as people we are done from being exploited by these so called leaders and governments.
As Africans, we mostly had something like 60+ years time to set things straight. Some did, like Botswana. Others didn't, but even continue now, decades later, to blame our failures onto something that was toppled, long ago.
*only 30 years in the case of South Africa and 34 years in Namibia, but otherwise mostly 6 decades.
@@arvidsfar1580 True but I also disagree at some point because normally when people look at developments, they focus on the infrastructures and roads in the cities and towns that is the CBDs. People don't look at where african majority are living (as in their homes). For example if you go to South Africa, majority are living in shacks but the cities and roads are on point. Their economy seems to be better than most of the other African countries but most of the staff is expensive e.g clothes in malls, Tertiary education etc. I know people would say they have programs like NASFAS which help them pay fees but remember they only help a few and there's nepotism and corruption in those programs. The system was never changed, it was just upgraded. We thought, we fought for our freedom but the freedom was given to us as a way to improve the system. We are still colonised but now in a better way. We can't controll markets or trade yet we are the ones with goods. Most African countries have huge debts which they owe to their colonisers as a token of appreciation for being colonised. Up to now Africa has no permanent seat in the UN yet it's the backborne of the world. It seems like nothing was toppled but just an upgrade of the system so that looting and corruption could be done peacefully and smoothly.
@@takudzwagamba1119 Mostly agreed, but no country other than the victors of WW2 (PR China, France, Russia, UK, US) has a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
An instructive video that shows that people have not progressed at all in their moral development, despite a bunch of declarations.
DRC needs to first of all chase away all the foreign mining companies and secondly chase away all the embassies and international bodies in the Congo, then build a large Army to defend their territory by so doing they need to promote industrialisation, Infrastructure and Agriculture. Congo needs a leader like Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso.
The richness is not about resources it's about how people approach resources.
Such a mineral rich country with perfect climate and fertile soils. Its a shame.
Mineral richness: correct.
Climate: disastrous and home to some of the most devastating breeding grounds of fatal and maiming diseases, to this day.
Fertile soils: The opposite is true, except for the conflict-ridden eastern provinces.
The shame is a culture of endemic corruption and violence which dates back long before the arrival of western colonial powers and the almost complete lack of good governance principles, for centuries.
A european medium telling you why a former european colony is poor. Thats funny.
60 years later and you're still blaming Europeans. Have you no shame? The problem with Congo is it's people. It would've been a prosperous nation if it wasn't populated by them
@@PhylistarLangata but the irony.
It's poor, that's just a fact
@@PhylistarLangata hush it. You think after independence Europeans just went home? The ones who killed Congolese leaders and replaced them with dictators like mobutu. Did not leave. They stuck around to cause chaos and they are still there refusing to leave. There have been bloody protests for them to leave but they keep making excuses for them to stay.
@@PhylistarLangata you think 60 years Europeans have left congo alone? You think The ones who killed Lumumba and replaced him with a dictator mobutu left congo alone for 60 years? Mchwee. Mbwa.
Let Congo people enjoy their blessed natural resources. Why are world big power countries exploiting poor Congo people? Instead of exploiting poor people, help and raise them up.
Paul Kagame is the only non-idiotic African president that cares for his country's development. He's not the bad guy, just that DRC doesn't have such a leader.
Point taken, but he is not the only one. There are a few good ones dotted around the continent.
Lived there in Kinshasa for a year. One word answer? Corruption. That's it. Period. End of.
As someone who has been to Congo 1000% agree! Had to pay a bribe from a POLICE OFFICER just to get to my hotel from the airport. Grimmy place but beautiful scenery
before blaming DRC's neighboring countries blame their corrupted government that have failed to build modern army to protect its territory and its people, without security do not expect any development
Have you ever wonder why their military became weak post Mobutu when they actually had a capable military, probably the strongest in region during his time ? here is a clue , SANCTIONS, you don't have to guess by who . Their military was purposely weaken for obvious reasons. they weren't allowed to purchase any military hardware for over decades now on international market under the threat of even more sanctions. Those sanctions were only lifted like 3 or 4 years ago under a deal negotiated by angola president if I remember correctly.
putting Rwanda in the western design misery of the DRC is to distract the Africans to not question the real roots caused of the mess in the DRC, Rwanda didn't kill Lumumba nor propping up Mobutu, offloading the misery of Congo to Rwanda is purely ignorance of the highest order.
Rwanda is a problem one day will be invaded and defeated how come Rwanda exports minerals without any mine?
But Rwanda is at the forefront of the deaths
And if wasn't for the rwanda genocide, kongo wouldn't have been in this mess.
@billykash491 The Congo has been in turmoil ever since outsiders set foot there. By "outsiders," I mean those who are not African. If you care about history, you may know that there were kingdoms before these artificial borders were created, and they got along quite well back then. However, Europeans decided to merge Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi into one country with a single currency based in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa). Later, the Belgians turned Congo into the personal property of their king. When the Congolese rose up, chased away the colonizers, and gained independence, their leader, Lumumba, was dissolved in acid with the help of the father of the the actual president of Congo. They handed the country to Mobutu, who did not truly care about Congo and ensured that the West received everything they needed at the expense of the Congolese people-a situation that continues to this day.
Saying that the mess in Congo started because of the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda is a profound ignorance. If you know about King Leopold II of Belgium, you would be aware that he killed more than 20 million natives to pave the way for Congo to become a piece of Europe. Shortly before independence, Congo was an entity created by Europeans in the heart of Africa, built on the suffering of Congolese,Rwandans&Burundians who labored hard to enrich Europe and West. Blaming the mess in the Congo on Rwanda is pure racism and ignorance of the highest order.
@@gahangwasteve8789 during mobutus raign DRC was not rich but it did not have a war. The comment above is right. The mess in the DRC is thanks to the rwandais and their tribal wars which they exported to the DRC.
This is why I hesitated buying a PS5 earlier this year. As a gamer who's bought many devices for my hobby over the years, this feels terrible to watch, but it's something we should know about.Goes without saying, those metals should profit the people of DRC, not Chinese/EU/US companies and corrupt politicians.
How about your phone? Your laptop? Your TV? etc
You need to go off grid.
But you're using a phone or laptop to view this video and type your comment 😮
The point of my comment was not to take a moral high ground nor to tell others to stop using devices. Me not mentioning computers and phones doesn’t mean I don’t acknowledge them as part of the problem. Of course I know those also contain rare metals, but in modern society it’s very difficult to live without using them. Consumption of these products doesn’t mean we cannot criticize the production of their raw materials.
I mentioned gaming gear specifically because that's MY personal achilles heel in my electronic consumption. I'm actively following news about upcoming consoles and I'm very likely to buy them once games I'm interested about stop releasing on previous systems.
But when it comes to computers, phones and TVs, I always use them as long as they work. The desktop PC I'm typing on has served me for seven years, the TV I use with consoles is almost a decade in use and the I Phone 7 been in my pocket for five years. Being more sustainable with those is much easier for me, as I already said I only update them when they stop working and I already decided to buy my next phone used.
My personal future goal is to apply those aforementioned more sustainable choices, compromises and restraints to my gaming console consumption.
If only the truly most ethical of us (the people who don't consume ANYTHING containing DR Congolese metals) were allowed to criticize the production of these ores, then pretty much no one in developed countries could ever call out the injustices of mining companies and politicians, because the metals are used even in the production of electricity itself, and living without power is almost impossible without moving in a cave/forest.
I hope my point is understood better now. I guess I should have included this essay with my original comment.
The powerful dominant the weak.....Been that way for a very long time.
The DRC situation remains a mystery. Why is the world doing nothing to help this country out of the ills done her?
It is the richest country in the world. However, it has poor people and this is not new. It is a problem that plagues many nations on the African Continent.
The solution is within Africa, not outside of Africa.
Thanks 👍🏴
Evil leaders who doesn't think about their country feature but only themselves this is what you will see
Corrupted by who ??? WEST
@@kevinh7597By their selfish greed
@@kevinh7597Greed
@@kevinh7597you can’t blame the west mate , the west takes care of its people
Yet we have many pan africanists who blame Europe for the destruction of congo mean while there are many east african countries that are destabilizing congo as well. 😢
As a Congolese. I blame both of them including our dum politicians
@@EstaJeanette-nk7fjyou should blame yourself the most for ALLOWING it to continue. You know this and do nothing.
@@CarsonSingclere which Congolese wants it to continue? Mbwa. For you to allow something you must want it to happen. Show me that Congolese who wants congo to suffer.
Stolen by Belgium 🇧🇪 King Leopold II of Belgium declared the territory his private property
DRC is to blame, corrupt nation and Blames its neighbors including Rwanda
Not bad...how about telling us which cell phone companies have "conflict components" ?
Surely the biggest one - Apple but do Americans care. They will sell their neighbours for profits
Apple is one of them.
All of them
All of them🤷🏾
@@BelChance I am pretty confident Apple is not one of them.
Oh no! Not poor wakanda!
You forgot or hidden the role of UN which also has been caught involved in smuggling congolese resources. Also the fact that you hide the main hands of US and Belgium whivh are the ones that killed Lumumba(not his opponents like you tried to imply to hide the real role of westerners) in the past and today and try to make Rwanda the biggest blame is raising questions about the motive behind the whole story.
That plane with the “UN” sign was not proof that they were smuggling anything.
They did not kill lumbumda they funded mobutu to kill hin and mobutu and Congolese supporters murdered him and let two Belgium’s play with his body!
Africa is cursed, how can those disasters be part of humanity, shame of humanity to exploit those poor people.
Africa is a continent with 54 countries, some of which fare far better than DRC.
Mention just one that is far better than Congo
@@leonalee392 Namibia.
@@arvidsfar1580 good,do know who are behind that beautiful progress?
@@leonalee392Zimbabwe, Namibia , SA, Angola , Botswana ,Egypt , Morrocco , Seychelles, Kenya , etc
The DRC people should listen each other's otherwise you will continue to be playground for other nations! Please stop fighting and listen to each other, your plates are full.
Efforts are underway to relieve the suffering. Techniques have been developed to replace cobalt with iron and phosphorus-based materials which do not come from the congo.
A wrong question was asked. The real question will be why "they" don't let DRC free and in peace to develop his country and make wealth its people? .
The leader of this country and suitable government is there that is the secret to make the Nation great
The question should be - Why wont the West let Congo be ?
Corruption is the only answer
It is not the resource curse that is the problem, the people are. I kid you not, if DRC Congo was full of the Saudis or the Europeans, it would be a super power. The problem is not even Rwanda, Rwanda is too small for a DRC Congo if well managed. If a strong well meaning leader surrounded by strong allies emerges in DRC, even Rwanda would fear interfering but so long as the people in DRC are corrupt, the nonsense will continue
Moise Katumbi?
Exactly it’s all abt people tbh I always say this , at some point people from Congo should stop and see this
It's all about foreign interference, Congolese allowed themselves to be used as instruments in destabilising and destroying their country, Remember Patrice Lumumba Killing.
@@arvidsfar1580that guy is a crook!
@@josh_mpoyi Most everyone is a crook, there. But isn't he the crook who brought a bit of peace, stability, and even welfare to his region?
Look at what happened, not just in the East, but also in Bas-Congo or in the Grand Kasaï.
The China deal money was not completely lost in corruption. Majority of it was just not paid by Chinese. As simple as that. I would close all the mines if I was the leader of DRC. Let the prices go up and sell carefully.
My fellow Africans, sometimes I just sit down and ask myself what did Africa do that the universe had decided to punish us like this?
10,000,000 Congolese killed by King Leopold. First time I am hearing about this
Another 10 million killed after
That's a complete myth. Roundly debunked.
@@tonycatman you mean well documented fact to the point the Belgium had to excuse publicly for that
@@kevinh7597 It did not apologise for killing 10m Congolese.
You are wrong.
@@tonycatman "Killings, famine and disease combined to cause the deaths of perhaps 10 million people, though historians dispute the true number."
It's the richest country on earth their timber is unmatched and gold is like water.
2:23 Fun fact 24 trillion dollar 💵 worth 😮 mineral value ! ? Not a use reason criminal politics unstable politics crony capitalism and civil war under devloped and developing countries mostly reason
8:00 enslaving your brothers, sisters, children, neighbors and friends for coca cola makes it hard not to see that person as anything more than a monkey in a fancy suit.
Honestly I don't see why they bring up Rwanda in Congolese problems. Rwanda imports legally minerals from congo at a low price, process them (add value) then sale them legally to westerners and Persian Gulf countries.
Congo does not export minerals to banana Republic of banyamatutsi
Legal low cost minerals you mean by killing people?
Attributing millions of deaths by disease to one person is a little odd.
One day one day, Lumumba will rise again
what's the awfully cold greyscale filter ya'll got on?
"D" as in DR Congo stands for what it is critically not.DRC is neither democratic nor a republic, in spite of its constitution.
First and foremost, the Congo is nowhere near democratic.
Any autocrat, in the neighbouring countries: Show me the "benevolent" approach, please.
Congo is not poor. The country is suffering from over exploitation. Engineered poverty is one of the biggest issues in Africa.
Congolese are example of us African will never wakeup 💔💔💔 that's f**n sad 😢😢
African countries have been colonized by the West for over 100 years and still very poor .
China is trying another approach at present by building Schools , Railways , factories & other Infrastructure projects
on their behalf , instead of giving money directly to their Gov’t officials . These will ensure that ordinary people
will be able to prosper together with all the development ……
Africa 💔
Congolese should use lingala in educating their population and other dominant regional languages. 😡😡😡
The failure of international efforts to handle DRC conflict is due to the interests of imperialistic leadership. Don't involve Rwanda in this issue.
Joseph Conrad, " Heart of Darkness"
I'm African, yet I had no idea that there was another country called the Republic of Congo. I thought it was all DRC!
Brazzaville Kinsasha
How is your ignorance relevant here?
@@Mont674 In the video they mention that distinction between the 2 Congos, and I was not aware of that beforehand. Thanks to this video, now I know.
@@Mont674 You're so rude.
@@takudzwamazwienduna Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, is just across the river from DRC's capital Kinshasa. And in spite of the people speaking the same languages (Kikongo, Lingala, French) it is a very different life situation on either side.
China knew ... they built all thay stuff for Chinese to move there. Not Congolese
China should help with infrastructure and governance together with the military in DRC. Chinese PLA military has no experience in real combat so DRC Congo is a great warzone for the PLA to get proper real combat experience.
ignorance & greedy
True journalism would be to name the companies working there
Asia and Africa were colonies, look at the difference after just 50 years.
This what happens when foreign corporations owns your country.
The DRC has been in turmoil for decades and decades. People need to stop bringing Rwanda into conversations without looking at the full history.
Rwanda, but mostly Batutsi and their relatives on the DRC side (eg, Banyamulenge) are still being seen as "natural enemies" among small, but very vocal voices, elsewhere in DRC. It sometimes comes down to people herding cattle (literally: Batutsi) being taken as enemies. Even among allegedly educated people in the capital.
Damn its not resource cursed its just hopelessly cursed
I just love how these leaders get so selfish they forget that they too will die and all the greed won't help in the end.
I am so sorry for this nation 😢😢😢.
This is so disheartening, my goodness!
Look at qatar
A cursed land or yt leeches won't leave them alone
I am looking in the comments section, where people will blame Nigeria…😂😂😂…you know even though each country has its internal issues, people seem to blame Nigeria for everything.
I would never blame Nigeria but if Nigeria were to be operated at its full potential it would strike fear into the other African countries and rogue groups running around. Nigeria should be the superpower of Africa
Usage of mineral on phone is mentioned many many times😂😂
Drc is example of that the world is hoppless of human government .
Congo is too big to be effectively governed. It’s current size renders it unviable as a state. We all know that the long term solution to the Congo problem is it’s balkanization. Congo is the Yugoslavia of Africa.
you fool !!!
DRC's size has nothing to do with current war in East. Shift uper your brainstorming, you will find out the real issue on global need for rare minerals to recover the planet from it's Weaker and Undiversified economy!
Adding to this, DRC is Victim after so many countries among which we might find Liberia, Angola and soon we will know the next in line as global need continue to rise and the battles on resources control to patching ways to the new KNOWLEDGE and GREEN Economies for which DR Congo is championing all the planet in term of Resources to lead these new economic models everyone's relay heavily on earth. To your appreciation and impartialy expressing, Congolese scholar leadership and expertise in governance align among the top 5 in African continent. It's an internationally and deliberately wronged and weakened Nation to purposely take advantage of it.
By the way DRC is not the biggest country on this little planet!
Very likely, however not anywhere near.
America ?
The biggest country in Africa is Algeria and it's governable.
Free DR Congo 🇨🇩 🇰🇪
War in the Congo is in the less than 1% of land mass it's another issue not war most people in Congo have never heard a gunshot
This is clearly untrue. Especially including people from 'Grand Kasaï' and the Bas-Congo militias.
Have you actually ever been to DR Congo, recently? If so, when, where, and for how much time? I'm fed uo with this type of pseudo-experts who have never spent more than a lovely holiday in one of Kinshasa's CBD hotels.
There is no war in kasai or bas congo. There is war in north kivu
@@arvidsfar1580 But what do you believe motivates most western media to reduce nearly everything to the two territories where the m23 is? Why are they so careful to avoid or minimize discussion not only of the 'Grand Kasaï' and the Bas-Congo militias that you mention, but also the mayhem in the provinces of Mai-Ndombe, Ituri, and Tanganyika?
This is like covering your head and leaving your feet exposed to mosquitoes when you go to sleep. The malaria doesn't affect only the feet!
Because countries who wants it resources cheaply wants to keep it in constant crisis
One day I'll buy DRC
The resource curse is real
Where? How is it not a local, independent governance curse?
Belgium
Even if the Congolese people elect the right person, it doesn’t mean that the problem is resolved. They may end up repeating the same actions against their new leader that they took against their former Prime Minister, Lumumba.
They make great music though. They need to get organised and run the country to benefit the people.
How sad
trying to put the supposed support of DRC to a couple of 10s of hutu extremists and Rwanda's well documented (by the UN) support of 1000s of M23 troops which has displaced more than a 1,000,000 people on the same footing is absolutely insane
Because they are colony of imperialists...
Well I have been to South Kivu the place is so poor, no roads, electricity, full of militias, well the place qualifies as a banana republic
“Why nations fail”
Congo needs a leader with the spirit pre Bukele, brain's of pre Xi & the power of pre Putin with a heart of former Uruguayan pre Alberto "pepe" mujica cardono
What about Priznel Kimpembe? He can become Emperor of all the congos?
M23 those are Congolese who are fighting for their rights so stop your nonsense , you need to know the cause of them fighting before talking rubbish
What is the cause of them fighting?
Mkundu. M23 are banyamatutsi not Congolese
rwanda has alot to answer
They are protected by western powers. forget it
They'll never get it together.
IS THERE ANYONE WE CAN TALK TO THERE