This is popular front a podcast focused on the very niche and kind of geeky

details of Modern Warfare with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to Ryan O'Farrell.

He's an independent researcher focusing mostly on the Congo.

He's going to be telling us about how the wars in Congo that you never see in the news are splintering and turning

into many different wars at the same time.

You've got different tribesmen fighting other tribesmen, farmers fighting farmers.

There's even an ISIS affiliated cell now in the Congo

hiding out in the jungles. So Ryan's going to explain all that for us and tell us

why Congo is really a place people should be focusing on rather than just thinking oh you know what

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keep going it's quite hard to explain in a nut show what's going on in the Congo, but it's a

place you never ever see in the news and right now what was you know a few conflicts

has kind of splintered into dozens of

different ones maybe you can give us you know a brief overview of what is going

on right now in the Congo yeah for sure so I think the the splintering thing is probably the most salient point.

You know, Congo doesn't have one war.

It's got, you know, 10 or 20 or dozens even.

So that all kind of kicked off in the 1990s.

With the Rwandan genocide,

basically over a million refugees kind of went into Congo after the

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