Showing posts with label independence day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label independence day. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
DR Congo Turns 50
Fifty years ago today (June 30, 1960), the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly called Zaire) gained independence from Belgium. I wonder if the people of the DR Congo really think they are better under African kleptocrats than they were under Belgian colonialists.
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