Armed groups covet cocoa in conflict-torn east DR Congo


Mavivi (RD Congo) (AFP) – Judith Kahindo makes her way through a tangled forest to harvest cocoa on her isolated plantation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the world’s leading cocoa exporters and where the crop is coveted by armed groups. “We tend our fields with the fear of being massacred” she says.

©AFP

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