About Congo DR

With creation of Transitional Government of Congo Africa's Great War was ended in 2003.

After the war Kivu conflict lasted for 5 years, but it isn't active as for year 2010.

There is lot of violence in Congo DR, but most of this is mobster activities:

• human trafficking (forced labour and forced prostitution)

• robbery,

• kidnapping for ransom,

• political assassinations,

There is unprecedented widespread peace in Sub-Saharan Africa. There is War in Somalia, clashes in South Sudan, some other border conflicts in East Africa, clashes in Central Africa and riots and insurgencies elsewhere.

Nonetheless hundreds killed made War in Somalia probably most bloody conflict in Africa this year. 240 or more raped one week in North Kivu are something different than 16 000 in three days in the same region in 2004.

Number of victims of road accidents is more than twice as high. In this time Sub-Saharan Africa have changed. I don't know exactly how.

Mai-Mai:

The Mai Mai militia groups are local defense groups often organized on an ethnic basis who have traditionally fought alongside the government army against “foreign invaders,” including the CNDP (National Congress for the Defense of the People ) and other Rwandan-backed rebel groups. In 2009 there were over 22 Mai Mai groups, ranging greatly in size and effectiveness, in both North and South Kivu. Some joined the Congolese army as part of the rapid integration process, while others refused, angry at the perceived preferential treatment given to the CNDP and unwilling to join the army unless they were able to stay in their communities.