
New route for old exploitation
A US-backed infrastructure project in the DRC is framed as development, but history suggests it’s just another pipeline for foreign powers to profit from Congo’s riches.
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Dean Clay is a historian and honorary research fellow at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, with research focusing on US (and transnational) activism and its impact on domestic and foreign policy.
A US-backed infrastructure project in the DRC is framed as development, but history suggests it’s just another pipeline for foreign powers to profit from Congo’s riches.