CongoIsBleeding: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Kinshasa, Zaire, DR Congo, DRC, the DROC, or simply the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. It was formerly called Zaire. It is, by area, the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa, the second-largest in all of Africa.
Social media is experiencing a trend today #congoIsBleeding because of how deprived and poor this country is despite it’s riches in some natural resources. Congo is a home to abundance of natural resources such as rubber, minerals and valuable metals- cobalt, Iron, Colton etc. Congo is responsible for more than half of the world’s natural resources [ 70%, yet they’ve been intentionally, subjugated to strive in poverty.
Colton is a critical mineral needed for the production of electronic devices such as the Iphones, Xbox, Laptops, Aerospace, Batteries and more. Thus the need for it in growing digital world
There is a history of how Leopold II of Belgium murdered closed to 16milliom Congolese in the late 80s in his quest to conquer the country and make it his personal property after realizing how rich the land is.
It is believe that Congo is still suffering this fate in the hand of some veto countries who are bent on claiming the land and its resources thereby providing financial and military aid to some fellow countries like Uganda and Rwanda to invade regions filled with Colton reserved. And as they invade, millions of civilians are killed in Congo today.
This is just one of the vices in Congo today, the lots of rape, hunger, poor governance, child labor, child marriage, lack of education, teenage pregnancy and many more, resulted from the inflictions left by the above topic.
On the streets of social media [ twitter ] we gather some thoughtful tweets calling for support for Congo under the #CongoIsBleeding.
There’s a silent genocide in Congo and the world keeps turning a blind eye. We need our voices heard. #CongoIsBleeding
— SS (@ssozinha_) October 15, 2020
Has been happening almost every year… Congo is the most blessed country in terms of resources but is the cursed when it comes to peace.
— 凯文 (@Makazkev) October 16, 2020
Y’a des experts qui sortiront peut-être des "kski prouve que c’est au Congo cette photo " ,mais la vérité est que y’a un genocide actuellement,plus le temps de faire les aveugles #CongoIsBleeding pic.twitter.com/eUoC3HMgzh
— JU_JU☀️|🇨🇩 (@julio_kitoko1) October 15, 2020
#CongoIsBleeding pic.twitter.com/XkCWifB195
— Dr. M 🇨🇩 ✌🏾🙏🏾 (@SmiileyF) October 15, 2020
. @fatshi13 #CongoIsBleeding it’s time to punish those who have been committing war crimes against us! It’s time to invest in our children and our healthcare! It’s time to STOP DEALING with people who are not dealing with us. We want CHANGE 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩
— SS (@ssozinha_) October 15, 2020
I can’t wait for the day Congo reaches its full potential. Probably won’t be in this lifetime but it will be some day
— chloë (@chloejayyb) October 15, 2020