Why war in eastern DRC continues to smolder

The World

Leaders of Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda are slated to travel to Washington this week to sign a peace deal overseen by US President Donald Trump. New Yorker journalist Jon Lee Anderson visited the region twice recently. He tells Host Marco Werman that the disarmament of tens of thousands of fighters in the region from more than 100 ethnic groups won’t be easy now that they’ve seen “power through the gun.”

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