Congo Conflict, and Historical Background: Governance and Mining, Massacre, Rape.

By Louis Rwagasore

Democratic Republic of Congo Crises. Congo War, Congo massacre When Laurent Kabila's Alliance des Forces D mocratiques pour la Lib ration du Congo (AFDL) seized Kinshasa in May 1997, it filled in the political vacuum three decades of Mobutu rule had left. Mobutu's predatory state had started crumbling at the pace of the ever worsening economic recession that struck the Congo in the seventies. The dictator's power resided in his presidency being a receptacle for the wealth yielded by the nation, and a patrimonial system of redistribution was used to buy the political, military and commercial elites' loyalty to the regime. Finally, as the economic recession worsened, and still dragging along the collapse of the formal economy, the glue that kept the system together dried up.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1535434023
• ISBN13: 9781535434027
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"