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In Africa there have been many wars and problems with poverty as well as famine that lead to war. One specific war was the civil war in Congo also known as The Great War of Africa. The war in Congo lasted from August 1998 to July 2003 and left thousands of people dead or injured. The war started because of issues in the DRC which stands for the Democratic Republic of Congo. The war was a long and terrifying war that ended when the transitional government of Democratic Republic of Congo took power. Africas unfriendliness has continued with the Lords Resistance Army Insurgencies and The Kivu as well as Ituri conflicts. The civil war in congo has made a huge impact on the people of africa and how they live today. The Kivu conflict was an armed conflict against the FARDC ,which stands for The Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Hutu power group Democratic forces for the liberation of Rwanda in 2004. The main group against the FARDC was the rebel tutsi forces under the command of Laurant Nkunda. As a result of this conflict the CNDP, which stand for the National Congress Defence of the People, divided R0wandan Hutu power in 2009. The Ituri was a conflict between the Agriculturalist Lendu and Pastoralist Hema ethnic groups of the Ituri region which is in the northeastern region of the DRC. This started as early as 1972 and the most recent conflict was in 1999 to 2003 but has had small amounts of conflict until 2007. The lendu ethnicity was represented by the FNI which stands for Nationalist and integrationist Front. The hema ethnicity was represented by the UPC which stands for the Union of Congolese Patriots. there was a lot of violence like large massacres that both ethn icity did. The BBC found out that from 199... ... to blend into the forest and wait for them to attack; the nature of the army even further undermines the military operations. There are many attempted solutions that the security council of UN tried, but did not completely succeed in stopping the war. In the future there will not be as much fighting. There will be less conflict and more peace with the government and the FDLR. Hopefully in the future the people of Africa will not live in poverty as well as famine and have more money than what they have now. They could have enough money to survive longer and to buy medicine as well as food. In africa there should be more laws passed to for gun control and the government should try to get bigger and stronger to stop the FDLR. The UN should try to do more to stop the war in Africa. there are many solutions that that were tried but failed in stopping the war in Africa.