Why Is There So Much Turmoil in Eastern Congo?

At its worst point, it was labeled Africa’s World War, a transnational conflict that cost millions of peoples’ lives. At best over the past decades, there has been a fragile peace. But there has never been a definitive end to the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Now it’s resurging. Growing tension between Congo (formerly known as Zaire) and its neighbor Rwanda is threatening to spark a war in Africa’s Great Lakes region. However, like other crises in Africa…