Mining kleptocrats and the need for true democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Caption: ABC, an Australian television network in this case, documents the deadly collapses and other horrors in Congolese cobalt mines. All while mining kleptocrats and friends grow richer!

An article in the influential Wilson Quarterly reminds us how “America’s Past and Present Collide in the Democratic Republic of Congo”:

“A significant percentage of the human slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries originated from the DRC, as did the rush for rubber and other key minerals that fueled techn...