Congo, The Democratic Republic Of

Congo, The Democratic Republic of the

Franc Congolais

Congolese Franc

Mbanza Congo

Who cares about Syria? Who cares about Bosnia?

Britain, America, Japan,

Congo

Congo

Republic of the Congo

No, he's fr om the Congo.

Kongo central

Congo

Of course, Africa is a continent full of catastrophes

So here's a tale of passion.

And you can see we still have Afghanistan down here.

And here we have the countries in collapse and war,

Democratic Republic of the Congo

west Dem. Rep. of Congo

east Dem. Rep. of Congo

Cause crippling throughout the world.

His name is Dr. Denis Mukwege.

One is AngolesePortuguese the other one is Congolese.

In 1899, Joseph Conrad released The Heart of Darkness, a tale of grim horror along the Congo River.

He said there's just not in demand.

Just picking one or two of the projects right here in Africa that the Roots and Shoots groups are doing, one or two projects only in Tanzania, in Uganda, Kenya,

Narrator

But then, in the '80s, watch out here.

This is the world of wild bonobos in the jungles of Congo.

We have a continuum. But we still have, of course,

It's kind of a well kept secret.

I'd spoken in Somalia, Burundi, Gaza, the West Bank,

And they supported me a bit, and I built this.

The coltan in this body came from a mine in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo.

Now, the Africa Progress Panel, led by Kofi Annan, they've calculated that Congo may have lost more than 1.3 billion dollars from these deals.

Prices soared.

And as a marketer, I found that curious.

This cell phone started its trajectory in an artisanal mine in the Eastern Congo.

In the past 10 years, five million people have died due to a war in the east.

In my travels and in my work, from Congo to Afghanistan, from Sudan to Rwanda,

I also want to bring to the stage Valerie Amos, whom I had the pleasure of interviewing earlier today, with Beyoncé.

like Yemen and Afghanistan.

I speak French and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

So they might go through, pass through the Okapi Faunal Reserve.

I think that is the largest number of elephants we have right now in protected areas in Congo.