Rwanda’s Raiders
The linchpin of Rwanda’s booming mineral sector is the violent paramilitaries it finances in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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The war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on the Central African country’s border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in the last twenty-nine years. Some estimate that almost half of them are children. From village after village, the stories coming out of the region are horrifying. […]