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Why poverty is a control tool of the political elite

Both fact and legend agree that The Democratic Republic of Congo is potentially one of the richest countries on earth as far as natural resources are concerned.

It is a place seemingly blessed with every type of mineral, yet consistently rated lowest on the UN Human Development Index, where even the more fortunate live in grinding poverty. This state of affairs is not by accident, it is a scheme by the elite to keep the multitudes in subjugation in perpetuity.

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