Second Congo War

war in Africa

The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or MONUSCO (an acronym based on its French name ), is a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A planned withdrawal from the country is currently on indefinite hold due to advances by the armed group M23 in the North and South Kivu provinces.

2002 peace agreement

peace treaty

2000 war between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda and Uganda

genocide of Mbuti and other Pygmy tribes by the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo in North Kivu

Mai-Mai militia leader

Rwandan rebel

2003 massacre in Bogoro, Democratic Republic of the Congo

genocidal rape in Congo

1998 Offensive in the Second Congo War

The term Genocost means genocide for economic gains. "A regime of destruction of a population through the systemic economic exploitation of its vital resources, the disintegration of its socioeconomic structures, and durable harms to its environment, when such effects are willed, known, or accepted as a necessary cost of profit or geoeconomic domination". The expression, referring to the human, social, and economic cost of armed conflicts linked to the exploitation of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been incorporated into the national legal framework. Law No. 22/

agreement attempting to end the Second Congo War

unsuccessfull attempt to end the Second Congo War