Congo-Kinshasa: International Community Has Failed in DRC - UK Advocacy Group

25 October 2012

FOR the past 10 years the international community has failed to take into account the underlying causes of endemic conflicts in the Congo, leaving billions of dollars invested in trying to stabilise the country without bearing fruit, the London-based International Alert has said.

"It is our contention that a major reason why Congolese and international efforts have so far failed to bring peace is that they have wrongly diagnosed the issues and accordingly are addressing the problems in the wrong way," the organization said in its latest report the Congo situation, dubbed, "A New Deadlock: Towards a new vision of peace in eastern DRC".

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