The Democratic Republic of Congo, which has neither the attributes of the first part of it's pompous name nor the second's , has again plunged into chaos, with hundreds of thousands fleeing the conflict zones.
Dubbed the Saudi Arabia for minerals, the seemingly unlimitted ressources of the country have not translated into wealth and a better quality of life for millions of congolese people. The riches of the country being rather squandered by a western supported, rotten regime and looted by different opportunists the world over.
Patrice Lumumba the first elected prime-minister of the country (then named Zaire) and anti-colonial leader
deposed in a coup, then murdered by a bunch of thugs with the help (now well documented) of the CIA, Belgian secret services...