This is Congo: One of the world’s longest running conflicts
A soldier and a whistleblower shed light on the rise of armed rebel groups in the DR Congo, and on the country’s colonial legacy.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is home to Africa’s longest continuing conflict.
In this film, we followed a whistleblower and a patriotic military commander who provided a visceral, yet intimate, insight into a nation caught between foreign-backed rebels and the government of then-president Joseph Kabila, who ruled until 2019.
As the conflict resonates with both men’s lives, the film reveals the insidious legacy of colonialism, resource exploitation and wars that have created a continuing cycle of violence.
Democratic Republic of Congo has had many names over the past century and a half, but again and again, it has been failed by those who were supposed to be its protectors. On this episode of Untangling Africa, we turn our attention to Congo, and to one of the most tragic tales in the history of the continent — a tale that is sadly not yet at an end.
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