Congo Should Get Funding For Its Rainforests, President Says
- Congo Basin is world’s second-largest rainforest after Amazon
- DRC President Tshisekedi delivers speech at United Nations
A mountain gorilla in forest bordering Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.
Photographer: Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images
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Congo President Felix Tshisekedi said his country deserves more funding to protect its tropical rainforests and reiterated a pledge to provide electricity to more than half of the population.
Tshisekedi, 56, has ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo since January in partnership with his predecessor Joseph Kabila, whose allies control both chambers of parliament. One of the world’s least developed countries, Congo is also one of the poorest in Africa despite its huge cobalt and copper reserves.