Since 2012, MCB has documented the North and South Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.), where regional and western governments, along with and aided by dozens of armed groups, have engaged in turf battles for decades, often driven by ethnicity and funded by minerals. The richest country in Africa, with upwards of $30 trillion of minerals in the ground, Congo will perhaps never be left alone to develop as an independent, democratic nation – as when there is war, the price of minerals is low. Since 1996, conflict in the D.R.C. has led to approximately six million deaths, either as a direct result of fighting or because of disease and malnutrition, the world's deadliest conflict since World War II.
