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The Youth of the Congo

Dagmar Zindel
December 22, 2016

The capital city Kinshasa is bustling, its 10 million residents make it a tempting market for foreign firms. French telecom's company Orange has bought up local firm Tigo. The telecoms industry here is developing rapidly. More than half of all Congolese are under 25 years old.

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like copper, gold and diamonds. 40 percent of the country's economic growth comes from mining.