Essence of African state reflects its daily concerns and its future
Essence of African state reflects its daily concerns and future the case of central African trigger
By Lubungo Tafadhali Ngwy
Independent researcher
Background Information
The Democratic Republic of Congo formerly known as Zaire is an immense country covering an area of 2,344,885 square kilometers bordered by Republic of Congo to the North –West, the Central African Republic and Sudan to the North ,Uganda,Rwanda,Burundi and Tanzania to the East, Zambia and Angola to the South. Its population has been estimated to 48,040,000 by the United Nations Population Division in 1997.the history of the country is traced back from being a private estate of Belgian King Leopold II to June 30,1960 when the Congolese nation assumes coming into existence. King Leopold II was a man crammed with greediness to have accumulated a vast personal fortune from ivory and rubber through Congolese slave labor; 10 million people are estimated to have died from forced labor, starvation, and outright extermination during Leopold's colonial rule, to the extent his brutal exploitation of the Congo became an international cause célèbre, without delay Belgium to take over management of the Congo, which remained a colony until agitation for independence forced Brussels to grant freedom on June 30, 1960. Belgium encouraged up a civil war that lead the Katanga Province seceded from the new republic in less than a month, and another mining province, South Kasai, followed. Paradoxically, Belgium sent paratroopers to repress the civil war, and with President Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Patrice Lumumba of the national government in conflict, the United Nations flew in a peacekeeping force.
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