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How king turned Congo into most traumatised country in Africa

By AMOS KAREITHI

The cries of the people that started more than 128 years ago continue to echo across the continent. From the day Henry Morton Stanley, the Welsh trained journalist-cum-explorer set foot in Congo to carve a kingdom for the king of Belgium in 1878, this part of the world has never known peace.

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