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Topic: history

The Congo River at Kinshasa
World
Tuesday, 6/30, 01:08 AM

DR Congo at 66: a rich land where independence's promise still waits

  • On June 30, 1960, the Democratic Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium amid soaring hopes.
  • Sixty-six years on, the anniversary lands as a painful question: how a country so blessed with the minerals that power the modern world remains, for so many of its people, so poor and so unsafe.

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