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Sixty-six years on: The promise of DRC independence remains unfulfilled

· By Prosper Heri Ngorora
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Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo – It was Thursday, June 30, 1960, when Belgian and Congolese dignitaries gathered at the Palais de la Nation in Kinshasa, then known as Leopoldville, for a ceremony marking the end of more than seven decades of colonial rule.

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