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Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo
a Globe and Mail book review. Depressing stuff.

The government's mining company alone was making something like $800 million a year in the early 1970s.
They got $9.3 BILLION in foreign aid loans from the helpful World Bank and IMF.
And basically, all of that money vanished, eaten up by corruption.
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