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Africa's Broken Heart: The Land the World Forgot (Risk Book)
Hugh McCullum
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The day that the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo voted, on 30 July 2006, marked the most significant election held in Africa since 1994 balloting in South Africa at the end of that nation's apartheid regime. Like South African's, Congolese voted in their millions, walking up to 50 kilometres each way to the polling stations. The election brought to a close 130 years of foreign invasions, colonialism, exploitation of vast mineral wealth, dictatorship and the consequences of two recent wars that cost 4.3 million lives in just over five years, the most deadly conflict since World War ... Read more
The day that the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo voted, on 30 July 2006, marked the most significant election held in Africa since 1994 balloting in South Africa at the end of that nation's apartheid regime. Like South African's, Congolese voted in their millions, walking up to 50 kilometres each way to the polling stations. The election brought to a close 130 years of foreign invasions, colonialism, exploitation of vast mineral wealth, dictatorship and the consequences of two recent wars that cost 4.3 million lives in just over five years, the most deadly conflict since World War ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
World Council Of Churches
Number of pages
94
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Number of Pages
94
Place of Publication
Geneva, Switzerland
ISBN
9782825415061
SKU
KIN0001105
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