CONGO IS LIKELY AFRICA'S RICHEST NATION.

CONGO IS LIKELY AFRICA'S RICHEST NATION.

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.

Formally called Zaire,Congo Kinshasa is probably Africa's richest nation .

It has several valuable minerals such as cobalt in which as at the 70's it was the world's largest producer.

Cobalt is used in making strong steel for domestic and industrial purposes,the nation also produces Gold and Tin around the North Eastern axis of the nation .

The Kasai region is strongly believed to produce half of the world's production of Diamonds with the huge mine deposits in Shaba sites for precious minerals like copper,zinc,uranium,managanese,Tungsten,Cadmium,Vanadium,iron ore,natural gas is found in the Bakavu region.

Factories are based on the local content the nation produces with such crops like sugar cane ,oilpalm nuts and other crops that are key in Congo's agronomy.

The inga Dam near Matadi produces power for heavy industry ,in a brief chat with The News office Desk of the E.N.MPaedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria ,an impeccable source who has lived in the Congo for a decade but who is originally from Nigeria and infact whose wife hails from the nation says one of the immediate challenge any coming regime in the nation after Joseph Kabila's reign will have will be on how to convince the three major rebel groups operating in the Eastern regions of the nation to sign peace accord.

He lamented the fact that this was not going to be possible in that a lot of people within  and outside  the nation were benefitting from the conflict financially.

He agreed that Congo was Africa's richest nation but quickly added that sadly the nation has not being able to fulfill its huge potential due its endless crisis.