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Democratic Republic of the Congo: A country is plundered (2018x28)

Data di messa in onda: Nov 10, 2018

The Democratic Republic of Congo has countless natural resources: Coltan, cobalt, copper, gold and diamonds are stored under the hot earth of the Central African country. But this wealth was not always a blessing - envy and foreign desires led to the fact that the exploitation of precious resources was never peaceful. Portrait of a tortured republic from the Belgian colonial period to independence, from the spillover of the Rwandan civil war to the countless regional conflicts and the Mafia machinations of the presidents Mobutu and Kabila to the still omnipresent corruption. [arte]