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Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. In London I'm Jason Paulmer.

And in New York I'm John Fasman. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events

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But first.

On Monday an explosion tore through cinema in eastern Congo.

The homemade bomb wounded ten people including children and teenagers.

Marking yet another day of mourning in the city of Butembo.

Last month another blast in the same city wounded two Congolese intelligence agents.

Violence in the broader region is intensifying. Some 5.5 million people in the Democratic Republic

of Congo have been forced from their homes. A number second only to Syria.

But international attention has been elsewhere. Making the war in the DRC perhaps the world's

most neglected major conflict. East and Congo has been on fire on and off for three decades.

John McDermott is the economist Africa correspondent.

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