A provincial gem: Zaire.(economic prosperity in the Eastern Kasai province of Zaire)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: April 27, 1996 | Copyright information

The Eastern Kasai province is seeing economic growth, unlike the rest of Zaire. This is due to due to its thriving diamond industry and the strong leadership of Bishop Tharcisse Tshibangu and Jonas Mukamba, head of the diamond mining company, Miniere de Bakwanga.

MBUJI-MAYI

IN ZAIRE--not alone in Africa--the structures of statehood are vanishing. Some have collapsed, some are mutating into local power centres. The province of Eastern Kasai is all but independent of Kinsh...

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