2024 in Review: The armed conflict in eastern DR Congo
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As the year wraps up, we're looking back at ten of the episodes that defined 2024. This originally aired on February 27. None of the dates, titles, or other references have been changed.
Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is rich in resources, from gold and diamonds to coltan, used to power mobile phones. It’s also the site of recent heavy fighting between government forces and the rebel group, M23, and whoever emerges on top will have control of the region’s wealth. But trapped in the middle are Congolese civilians. As the fighting intensifies, where will they go?
In this episode:
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Catherine Soi (@cate_soi), Al Jazeera Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Fahrinisa Campana, Sarí el-Khalili, and Chloe K. Li, with Spencer Cline, Phillip Lanos, Hisham Abu Salah, Mohannad al-Melhem, and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Joe Plourde mixed this update. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, Malika here. |
| 0:14.0 | As 2024 wraps up, this week and next, we're bringing you our year in review. |
| 0:19.7 | Ten episodes looking at the stories that shaped our year. |
| 0:23.4 | And we're starting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| 0:26.6 | It was a year of compounded crisis, an attempted coup, outbreaks of disease, and fighting |
| 0:32.4 | in eastern DRC that displaced more than 1.6 million people. |
| 0:37.9 | We heard about the roots of that conflict from Al Jazeera correspondent Catherine Soye. |
| 0:43.0 | This episode first aired February 27, 2024. |
| 0:47.1 | All dates and references are from that time. |
| 1:02.6 | Today, as fighting escalates, what's next for the people of the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo? |
| 1:10.0 | The UN says that Jersey's plight is one of the most neglected in the world. |
| 1:13.8 | There is no food, there is no water, there is no proper sanitation or even healthcare. I'm Malika Bilal and this is The Take. |
| 1:34.6 | Catherine Soye has been reporting on Eastern DRC for years for Al Jazeera, |
| 1:39.4 | and she's seen the toll that years of war have taken on the people there. |
| 1:43.7 | It's been years and years and years of suffering. |
| 1:53.4 | People have to keep running. People have to look behind the backs because anytime something can erupt. |
| 2:03.7 | Those people have often been displaced multiple times. In just the last two years, more than 1.6 million have been forced to move by fighting over control of the region. I remember when I went to one of the cumps and there was a sound, |
| 2:11.2 | it sounded like a ganchot, but it wasn't, and everybody started running. And that is what we |
| 2:17.3 | are seeing. People are traumatized. They keep running. |
| 2:21.5 | They have to have their belongings packed so that they can just take off. And that is a terrible, |
| 2:30.6 | terrible way to leave. Catherine is reporting now out of the city of Goma, the provincial capital, covering an |
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