Mushaki, DR Congo, Dec 9, 2025 (AFP) - DR Congo farmhands labour under conflict, inequality

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2025-12-09

Francois Mitterand Murekezi walked three hours to join a hundred or so hoe-wielding farmhands gathered at sunrise in the hope of finding work on a plantation in conflict-ridden eastern DR Congo. In exchange for a hard day's labour on a local farm in Mushaki, where land squabbles have been a source of strife since the Democratic Republic of Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960, the 61-year-old stood to earn 5,000 Congolese francs, or aro......

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