Background of the Conflict in DRC
The following are current issues plaguing the DRC:
- Ethnic Conflict:
- The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (Rwandan)
- The Allied Democratic Forces and the Lord’s Resistance Army (Ugandan)
- The National Liberation Forces (Burundian—military offshoot of a Hutu rebel group)
- Mai-mai Militias (community militia forces)
- Ebola Outbreak (Currently 13th)
- COVID-19