Beneath the soils of the Democratic Republic of Congo lies a geological inheritance worth more than $24 trillion — cobalt, coltan, gold, and diamonds that power the world's clean energy future — yet eight in ten Congolese survive below the poverty line. This is not the cruelty of scarcity but the cruelty of design: a colonial architecture of extraction, compounded by decades of proxy wars that claimed 5.5 million lives, has left the state too hollowed out to convert its riches into human welfare. President Tshisekedi now governs a nation that possesses everything required for transformation, c
DRC's Mineral Curse: How Extraordinary Wealth Masks Extraordinary Poverty
Approximately 5.5 million deaths from war, disease, and malnutrition; 2 million displaced persons creating regional refugee strain.