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Sparsely populated in relation to its area, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is home to a vast potential of natural resources and mineral wealth. Nevertheless, the D.R.C. is one of the poorest countries in the world, with per capita annual income of about $120 in 2006. This is the result of years of mismanagement, corruption, and war.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo is a complex emergency and millions of people are suffering. Some from choice like Mama Doudou and some due to lack of choice like the prostitutes she works with. People are destroying their very environment they need for life.
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The constitution of Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was adopted in 2005 and came into force the following year, established a mixed presidential-parliamentary form of government. The president is popularly elected and may serve two five-year terms. The national legislature consists of two houses. The National Assembly has 500 members, who serve five-year terms; the majority (440) of the members are elected proportionally, the rest directly. The prime minister is chosen from the party or coalition that controls the assembly. The Senate has 120 indirectly elected members, who ... serve for five years.
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After ten years of conflict and a transition phase between 2003 and 2006, Congo held its first democratic elections in 40 years. The poll brought Joseph Kabila to power as president and Antoine Gizenga as prime minister.
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The Republic of the Congo's sparse population is concentrated in the southwestern portion of the country, leaving the vast areas of tropical jungle in the north virtually uninhabited. Thus, Congo is one of the most urbanized countries in Africa, with 85% of its total population living in a few urban areas, namely in Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, or one of the small cities or villages lining the mile ( km) railway which connects the two cities. In rural areas, industrial and commercial activity has declined rapidly in recent years, leaving rural economies dependent on the government for support and subsistence. Before the 1997 war, about 15,000 Europeans and other non-Africans lived in Congo, most of whom were French. Presently, only about 9,500 remain.
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Situated in the north of the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), the Nouabal-Ndoki National Park was created in 1993 to conserve, in its natural state, one of the last examples of an untouched wilderness in the world. The Nouabal-Ndoki National Park is one of the largest parks in the forested regions of central-west Africa, and contains almost 2 % of all Congo's forests.
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