Ongoing conflict in the Kivu region is one of the obstacles to social and economic development of the region for decades.The death toll in the region following the conflict is estimated at six million.The citizens of the region continue to suffer psychologically and physically horrible crimes such as rape and forced displacement due to ongoing wars ongoing in the region.The environment is also at stake because wherever the IDPs settled, deforestation takes over.Timber smuggling is also affecting the environment.The conflict in eastern DRC has made the Kivu region a hostile environment for investment despite its abundant resources including precious minerals, fertile land, forests, tourist attractions and potentially two billion barrels of oil reserves at the bottom of Lake St. Albert, near the border with Uganda.Clearly Kivu was the big loser following the continuing instability in the region.But claims that the neighboring countries of the region, namely Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda, have benefited economically from this instability can be challenged.The following is a list of lost economic opportunities, in my opinion, by the citizens of Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda following the ongoing conflict in the Kivu.The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has experienced conflict since independence in 1960. The worst conflict hit the region in the late 1990s and is still ongoing.The area most affected by the conflict in eastern DRC is the larégion Kivu.Avec its area of ​​about 120,000 square kilometers and its 12 million inhabitants, the region of North Kivu and South Kivu ( see map against) are bigger than Burundi and Rwanda together and the region is not as densely populated as Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda.The Kivu region is known for its fertile soil in the north and have large deposits of valuable minerals such as cassiterite, gold, coltan, wolframite, the Pro chlorine, diamond and amethyst tourmalines, scattered in the north and south of the region.The conflict in eastern DRC has never allowed in Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda to build strong and lasting relations with the DRC.This is partly explained by the alleged involvement of these countries in the conflict in Kivu.If good relations between the DRC, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda had been developed, a commercial cooperation to capitalize on the natural resources of the Kivu region to promote economic development throughout the Great Lakes region could be developed and implemented.This could have been achieved by making the discussion of cooperation with the DRC by the Economic Community of Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL), a sub-regional organization established in 1976 among others to promote cooperation between Burundi, the Democratic Republic Congo and Rwanda.Uganda was then able to join the CEPGL in the same way as Burundi and Rwanda joined the Community of East Africa (EAC) in 2009. Unfortunately, due to the conflict in the east of the DRC and strained relations with the DRC, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda have missed the opportunity to exploit their advantage of the geographical proximity to the rich Kivu region, thus promoting sustainable economic and social progress in their countries .DRC recently introduced the visa requirement for entering the Rwandans in Congo Rusizi-Bukavu border.While the reasons for this decision are still unknown, while indiqueque the decision has already had a negative impact on border communities in the region, having disrupted trade and education for Rwandan students who attend school in the DRC .The conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has seriously damaged the social and economic development in the Kivu region of the DRC where the conflict is long.Nevertheless, every reason to believe that neighboring countries of eastern DRC, namely Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda, have benefited economically from the instability in this region could be challenged.It is becoming increasingly clear that the conflict in eastern DRC seriously disrupts the long-term economic outlook for the countries of the Great Lakes Region and the East African Economic Community as a whole.The accumulated economic development opportunities missed because of this conflict remains a fiasco for regional decision-makers in places whose aspiring regional policymakers should learn from.The conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.A long-term fiasco and its lessons for policymakers political scientists.

DRC Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): State of Central Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo is bounded on the north by the Republic centrafricaineet South Sudan to the east by Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania Burundiet, southeast and south by Zambia, to the southwest by Angola, with a corridor dividing it into two countries (the enclave of Cabindaappartenant to Angola) and carrying up the ocean Atlantic, and west by the Congo.To the east, a series of lakes (from north to south, Lake Albert, Lake Edward, Lake Kivu, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Mweru) is a natural and discontinuous border.Area: 2,345,000 km2 Population: 67,514,000 (estimate for 2013) Name of inhabitants: Congolese capital Kinshasa Language: French Currency: Congolese franc Head of state Joseph Kabila Head of government: Mapon Augustin Matata Ponyo Type of State: Republic Constitution: Adoption: December 18, 2005 Effective: February 18, 2006 For more information: institutions of the Democratic Republic of Congo GEOGRAPHY Crossed by the equator, the country spans the humid forest bowl hot and which corresponds to the major part of the river basin Congoet on trays or height of the East.The population (more than 500 ethnic groups), very unevenly distributed, growing strongly;urban migration has swelled the cities (Kinshasa).The sect ... Kinshasa).The agricultural sector still dominant, mainly food (cassava, maize, plantain).Plantations provide palm oil, palm kernels, coffee and cocoa.Mineral resources are abundant and varied (copper, cobalt and industrial diamonds).The hydroelectric potential, one of the most powerful in the world, is underutilized.The exploitation of oil fields, still modest, looks promising.Kinshasa, Lubumbashiet Kisanganiconcentrent the few industrial activities.The disintegration of political power led to that of the economy, which is nowadays largely informal sector.1. The natural environment The main stages of the geological history of Central Africa explained quite well the current morphological landscapes of the Democratic Republic of Congo.Throughout the Precambrian period, a succession of orogenic cycles fashioned a continental shelf, or shield, finally smoothed and highly mineralized.Paleozoic to Cenozoic, especially continental erosion accumulates a thick sedimentary sequences, mostly sandstone, in the depressions of the surface.In Miocene tectonics had two main consequences: first, the formation of a vast basin limited by higher or lower peripheral bulges, and, secondly, major fractures giving rise to ditches collapse and eruptive events.We can thus recognize several major physical units.Northwest, artificially limited by the course of Congoet Oubangui, extends between 300 and 500 meters, an alluvial basin crossed by a dense river network;wide floodplains where floods spread, sink between upstream and dry sandy terraces.A well-marked slopes or regular slope make the transition with plateaus whose altitude increases to more than 1000 m, and in which rivers have dug deep and green valleys.A third ring is formed by the ancient land, which offer varied landscapes: plateaus dotted with inselbergs (Katanga Western Uélé), Hill alignments and Appalachian links (Mayombe), heavy with massive flattened tops (Mitumba, Kibaran Mountains ) side by side with the rift valley (Upemba).The contrasts are major east, with major rifts occupied by lakes (Tanganyika, Kivu) dominated granite horst (Ruwenzori) or volcanic units (Virunga chain).To the west, a narrow coastline consists of low plateaus and often marshy coast sandbars.The Democratic Republic of Congo has three climatic regimes.The center (Cuvette) has an equatorial regime: more than 1500 mm of rainfall a year, spread throughout the year, an average temperature of 26 ° C with very low amplitude, high humidity.North and South experience a tropical regime: 3-7 month dry season, often heavy rain, annual temperature range of 6 to 10 ° C.The altitude (east) alter the zoning of climates: strong contrasts between the catchment rainfall, mild average temperatures (16-18 ° C);eternal snows and glaciers coiffent Ruwenzori.The coastline, bathed by the cool waters of the Benguela Current, is abnormally dry for its latitude (800 mm per year).These climatic characteristics explain river regimes: straddles both hemispheres, the Congo river basin is supplied throughout the year.