Congo's history is some of the oldest human history in the world. In order to understand the totality of Congo, one must go back tens of hundreds of millennia. But much of whats happening today in DRC is reminiscent of the catastrophe initially brought upon Congo in the late 1800s by the then-king of Belgium, Leopold II. During the Berlin Conference, a meeting of European powers to divide up the African continent into their colonial properties, the territory was largely undesired by many of the