"After three coup-ridden but relatively peaceful decades of independence, the former French colony experienced the first of two destructive bouts of fighting when disputed parliamentary elections in 1993 led to bloody, ethnically-based fighting between pro-government forces and the opposition." (Taken from BBC.)
Republic of the Congo is obviously going through some strange times government-wise. The people have all wrangled with a number of different government types over the past twenty years, but they seem to be in pretty good shape economically. Their exports are far greater than their imports, and the constitutional system set up in 2002 seems to be working. Stay tuned for more information.
Duncan
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