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Suffering children of the Congo's war

A decade of fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo is continuing to kill about 45,000 people each month - half of them small children. The children of this war ravaged country are the ones who suffer the most. Lack of infrastructure and medical supplies makes it very difficult for newborns to live past five year of age. About 270/1000 children die under the age of five. Other developed countries the average death of children under five is 6/1000. Many of these deaths can be prevented with simple vaccines and a clean water and food supply.

Rebel Groups use Natural Resources to fund Military

The United Nations are trying to help out with the people in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Some people say that the U.N. efforts are irrelevant. The Congolese government has failed to assist the United Nations by disarming the armed rebel Hutu fighters.

Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has 80% of the world's coltan, a mineral used to make cell phones, video games and computers. The DR of Congo has some of the worlds largest deposits of gold, copper, diamonds and coltan. The rebel armies mine and sell these minerals to Uganda and Rwanda. The money is used to purchase weapons and supplies for their troops.

The Affects of The Civil War in Congo

The Democratic Republic of Congo has a new government. The people of this country don't know how it's going to work. The country has very little infrastructure to support the number of people there. Most of these people were refugees of the Rawanda Gendcide fleeing to find safety in the Congo. Gonga is the city of over six hundred thousand people in the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo this is where the U.N. has chosen its headquarters for this country. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled to this city to get protection from the U.N. peace keepers. The Tutsi rebel group led by general Laurent Nkunda and the Rwandan Hutu group continue to raid and kill the refugees. The children of the Republic of Congo are the most affected by the war because their village gets raided by the rebel groups and their parents get killed or get taken by the rebel groups. This means there are an increased number of child refugees in the refugee camps.