http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/26/congo-un-conflict-civilians
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/world/africa/23congo.html?_r=1&ref=congothedemocraticrepublicof
In the first article, The UN must Protect Congo's Civilians, we learn how desperate the people in the Congo still are. They need money and materials from a support system, in their case the UN. However, they are not receiving the amount of assistance needed to get them out of their desperate situation. Also, relating to this article, the second article, Congo’s Death Rate Unchanged Since War Ended, talks about the desperate situation that the Congolese people are in. Though their war has been over for several years, the death rate in Congo has remained constant at around 45000 dead per month. A quote that really sums of this article as well as the feel of the first is this: “The only thing that improved a bit is mobile phone coverage. We now are in contact with more people to know that the situation is not good.”
The main issue that I am finding is that, after the Congo's terrible history, and even though people know about what is happening, nothing is being done. People are dying every day and all that is being done is tallying the dead. I do think that there is a relation between this and Leopold's Congo because the country is still not united, and that can be traced back to the way in which the boarders were drawn and how the deaths ripped apart the country; too, the same diseases that were introduced by Leopold- malaria, etc.- are still responsible for a number of deaths each year.
