The problems in each country are different. The problems in Mali are Islamists in the North who have ambition to form a caliphate stretching right across the Sahel and Saharan Africa (us verses them sort of thing). See this map that I posted on the RSG threads.
The problems in the DRC are of a tribal ethnic origin (more from within, brothers against brothers). One tribe rules the other tribes through violence, murder and force. There is a basic lack of humanity in that country IMO, life is extremely cheap and even the Chinese company associated with the new lithium play has been embroiled in accusations of child exploitation. It seems a very strange mix to me, Chinese "state owned" companies and Australian day traders playing it out with a brutal dictator. Well each to their own I suppose. Esh
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