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Article: Carving up the Congo. (political crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo)
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- African Business
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- October 1, 1998
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As we predicted in our cover story, 'Kabila, king without a kingdom' (African Business November, 1997) the Congo is rapidly disintegrating. The knives are out to carve up this huge and potentially rich country. The scramble, however is sucking other Central and Southern African nations into a deadly confrontation and the economic implications for the entire sub-region are immense. Milan Vesely analyses the current crisis.
Fifteen months after the overthrow of Africa's longest reigning dictator Mobutu Sese Seko through a surprisingly short military rebellion, President Laurent Desire Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) must be having a strange sense of ...