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This is CBSI in the world, I'm John Bachelors.

The Democratic Republic of Congo, once upon a time, infamously, a colony of Belgium, but now,

a place of much confused violence and John McDermott for the Economist magazine guides us to

the frontier of several states, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Congo.

In an area where there are so many militias, we can only touch on the ones that do the

worst crimes and are repeatedly unchecked. John, a very good evening to you.

Thank you for this. Your venture into the field with a colonel who rewarded himself with

a bottle of Heineken after his men's struggle to cut a new road.

This part of the world, Arumu, and our neighboring villages, I take it from your reporting that

nothing here is safe or protected or secure. Is that correct?

And what praise upon the people in these villages? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Just to locate myself in this report, which I did recently for the

Economist, I flew to Eastern Congo in early September. I was interested in going to the region

because the Congolese government, which is based in the capital, Kinshasa, some

thousand miles away from what's going on in the east of the country, has said that since it

imposed military law, martial rule, in May of 2021, the key provinces there, which are called North

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