WHY THE WORLD IS BLIND TO THE CONGO CRISIS

6 million killed, 7 million displaced, but still grossly underreported in mainstream media. Listen to Friends of the Congo’s Maurice break down the reasons one of humanity’s biggest crises flies under the radar. Starting with the slave trade 5 centuries ago, through King Leopold’s sadistic tenure of a region 75 times bigger than his European holdings, to the present, Maurice gives necessary context to the ongoing Western pillaging of Africa’s richest yet paradoxically among poorest countries and why many are not aware of the sheer scale of the disaster.