DRC: Politics and Oil: The Unseen Drivers of Violence in Congo’s Ituri Province

Apr 4, 2018 | Fiston Mahamba and Claude Sengenya, IRIN
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A recent wave of targeted attacks has left a trail of death, destruction, and mass displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s northeastern province of Ituri. The roots of the violence are framed in media reports as ethnic, but analysts and local observers say powerful political and commercial interests are what is really driving and exploiting the inter-communal tensions.