U.S Role In Destabilising DRC

From covert CIA operations and backing corrupt leaders, to sponsoring proxy wars and controlling global-supply chains for strategic minerals – our Facts of the Week showcase how Washington’s neocolonial involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been instrumental in keeping the country weak, divided and easy to exploit… while US corporations rake in profits.

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https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/congo-decolonization

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/06/the-lumumba-plot-the-secret-history-of-the-cia-and-a-cold-war-assassination-stuart-a-reid-book-review

The Legacy of the Involvement of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2017/09/07/in-the-shadow-of-the-great-helmsman-mobutu-sese-sekos-life-and-legacy-in-the-dr-congo/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/09/08/congo-ex-ruler-mobutu-dies-in-exile/f77cc0d4-dfb5-4da2-8ad0-bbde640d3260/

https://www.cartercenter.org/documents/drc-mining-contracts-113007.pdf

https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/ae39717a-45e3-4175-8155-7606dfe8abaa/content

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/apple-and-google-named-in-us-lawsuit-over-congolese-child-cobalt-mining-deaths

https://globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/drc-apple-tesla-intel-may-source-conflict-minerals-through-failing-responsible-mineral-scheme/