1. The problems in the Democratic Republic of Congo : 
    • Some 5.4 million people have died
    • It has been the world’s deadliest conflict since World War II
    • The vast majority have actually died from non-violent causes such as malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia and malnutrition—all typically preventable in normal circumstances, but have come about because of the conflict
    • Although 19% of the population, children account for 47% of the deaths
    • Although many have returned home as violence has slightly decreased, there are still some 1.5 million internally displaced or refugees
    • Some 45,000 continue to die each month
    This is a list full of the problems in the DRC . We're trying to help,  support and give them a better living . We are trying to get the envoirment healthy and the people as well. RAISE Hope for Congo , works in Washington, D.C. to promote policy solutions to Congo's mass rape crisis, through educating the public and media about conflict minerals and sexual violence in the DRC.  
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  2. The agriculture in Congo supports two-thirds of the population .  The principal crops are cassava, yams, plantains, rice, and maize. Rubber is the second most important export cash crop. The plantation crop has been slowly recovering from nationalization. Due to the poor transportation system, that impedes the development of an effective national urban food-supply system. Water is an important to the people living in the DRC , especially with the hot,humid  weather there. The residents need water for drinking and for preparing food. Also, farmer need water for crops. Commercial hunting in the more accessible areas increases bushmeat-hunting and trade, an important component of the subsistence diet, forcing farmers to move farther into the forest to find meat supply.
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  3. The Congo Rainforest is one of the world's most threatened ecosystems. Commercial logging, clearing for subsistence agriculture, and widespread civil strife has devastated forests, displaced forest dwellers, and resulted in the expansion of the "bushmeat" trade. Since the 1980s, Africa has had the highest deforestation rates of any region on the globe. Another , Acidification the lowering of soil and water pH due to acid precipitation and deposition usually through precipitation; this process disrupts ecosystem nutrient flows and may kill freshwater fish and plants dependent on more neutral or alkaline conditions. Afforestation is also taking place in congo when converting a bare or agricultural space by planting trees and plants; reforestation involves replanting trees on areas that have been cut or destroyed by fire. 
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  4.  The Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa’s third-largest country, comes and goes from the news, but the killing there doesn’t stop. In the past 10 years, more than 5 million people have been killed in fighting. That means every two days as many people are killed as those who died in the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. The tragedy in the Congo has moved from the time it was a Cold War battleground in the 1960s, through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s when it was ruled by a corrupt tyrant, to the present when ethnic conflict has brought killing and “sexual terrorism.” In addition to the rape of women and children, according to Maurice Carney, executive director of the Friends of the Congo in Washington, D.C., there is also rape of natural resources. 
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