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The horrors of eastern Congo
Congo’s armed groups display a horrific capacity for brutality.

RUTSHURU, Democratic Republic of Congo — The figure in military fatigues and rubber boots stood on the rutted road, framed between green walls of tangled equatorial forest. He leveled his assault rifle at a small huddle of people kneeling in the mud next to their truck. 

Around them were their scattered, meager belongings: burlap sacks of grain, cooking pots and small suitcases of clothes.

- Tristan McConnell
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Africa’s oldest park is under attack
Protecting Virunga National Park might be the toughest job in conservation. Rangers must carry AK-47s, belt-fed machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
- Tristan McConnell
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Will the oil curse come to Congo? (VIDEO)
Congolese living in the Virunga National Park worry oil speculators have little interest in supporting locals.
- Ben Crowe
Park oil
Virunga National Park's newest enemy: Oil
Possible oil reserves beneath Africa’s oldest park threaten its survival.
- Tristan McConnell
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Despite it all, there may be hope for Congo
One small village in eastern Congo has reverted to the old ways, and it’s doing better.
- Tristan McConnell
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  1. The horrors of eastern Congo

  2. Africa’s oldest park is under attack

  3. Virunga National Park's newest enemy: Oil

  4. Will the oil curse come to Congo? (VIDEO)

  5. Despite it all, there may be hope for Congo