Congo's mineral wealth is estimated at US $24 trillion. As the article here says, it's a rich country with poor people. And the economic model they prefer is China's over America's (or the West's).
I saw with mine own eyes when I drove from Cape Town to Cairo in 2011 the difference that China's roads and bridges have made to Africans. Wherever there's a road there you have increased wealth.
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I saw with mine own eyes when I drove from Cape Town to Cairo in 2011 the difference that China's roads and bridges have made to Africans. Wherever there's a road there you have increased wealth.
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Roads, schools and hospitals built by the Chinese have transformed the country's economic prospects. Indeed, Congo has posted a respectable annual average economic growth rate of close to 8 per cent since 2010, well above the average for Sub Saharan Africa.
