Johannesburg — COUNTRIES emerging from war and which fail to put in place processes to manage the period after the conflict stops seem more at risk of returning to violence in the following five years than those which do.
In the case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, however, it has taken a mere six months for President Joseph Kabila and his former deputy, Jean-Pierre Bemba, to be at each others' throats again. Their respective armed forces were at the weekend involved in violent clashes which left more than 100 people dead and raised real concerns about prospects for achieving true democracy in the giant central African country.
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