In RDC, links between illegal trade of minerals and permanent conflicts in Ituri and in the Kivus is obvious. From 1994 to 2009, consequences have been frightful : population exodus, sexual violence against women, child enrolment as soldiers, environmental losses. Coming back to a sustainable peace means to restore the State in his basic functions, to push production and trade growth through special programmes, more surely with a regional cooperation in perspective.
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