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Trading Conflict for Coffee in DR Congo's North Kivu

While coffee production has plummeted in the last three decades, one entrepreneur is hoping to revive the industry and lure young men from joining militias.
Nick Long/IRIN

Militiaman with a farmer at a coffee plantation near Kalonge, on the borders of Masisi and Walikale territories in North Kivu.

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