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The Congo War (1998 - Present)
Poverty, Hunger, and Violence
The second largest country in Africa, The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the wars there have taken the same amount of lives “as having a 9/11 every day for 360 days, the people killed in the great Tsunami that struck Asia in 2004, and the number of people who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki all combined and then doubled” (Tampa). The Rwanda government has been accused of backing the newest militia gang M23 with arms, support, and soldiers by the United Nations. The Congo war has caused 5.4 million deaths mainly through disease and starvation, which makes this one of the deadliest worldwide conflicts since World War II.
Even though the poverty rate in Africa has dropped, rapid population growth keeps the amount of people suffering from hunger and poverty growing. During 1990 there was about 280 million people were living in poverty to about 330 million in 2012. There’s 20 countries in the world that have the worst food and security and 19 of those countries are in Africa. About two out of five adults cannot read or write. The domestic violence rate in Africa is twice as high than anywhere else in the world.
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