![A map of Africa with the Democratic Republic of Congo highlighted.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/SB%201%20DRC%20MAP.png?itok=XYcjJ5j3)
The Democratic Republic of the Congo
![A 2015 map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with provinces and adjoining countries.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/SB%204%20DRC%20Map.jpg?itok=ho8h3Ow6)
Democratic Republic of the Congo Map
![A miner working in 1942.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/SB%205%20Katanga%20Miner.jpg?itok=MHz0w-kt)
Katanga Miner
![A 2014 aerial view of Congolese coltan mines.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/1%20Coltan%20Mine.jpg?itok=qw3JrMIb)
Coltan Mine
![A 1906 map showing revenue divisions in the Congo Free State with crosses marking the locations of documented atrocities.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4%20Revenue%20Divisions%20Map.png?itok=N9ioqqme)
Revenue Divisions Map
![An 1885 map from H.M. Stanley’s book.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/5%20Political%20Divisions%20of%20the%20Congo%20Basin.jpg?itok=SpJQ0_09)
Political Divisions of the Congo Basin
![A 1906 political cartoon depicting King Leopold II of Belgium as a snake.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/6%20In%20the%20Rubber%20Coils.jpg?itok=hdN3Q0Eq)
In the Rubber Coils
![Pictures taken by British missionary Alice Seeley Harris in 1904.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/7%20Mutilated%20Congolese%20Children%20and%20Adults.jpg?itok=otja53oj)
Mutilated Congolese Children and Adults
![A photo taken by missionaries of a father who had brought his five-year-old daughter's severed foot and hand to them.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/9%20Dismembered%20Foot%20and%20Hand.jpg?itok=hwiJIZwK)
Dismembered Foot and Hand
![The logo for Unilever.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/10%20Unilever%20Logo.png?itok=oDbvk5iF)
Unilever Logo
![A 1905 caricature of King Leopold II with his earnings.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/11%20Leopold%20II%20and%20his%20Guineas.gif?itok=nA7IfMe3)
Leopold II and his Guineas
![Future Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba showing the injuries to his wrists.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/12%20Patrice%20Lumumba.jpg?itok=IfR3Lwz3)
Patrice Lumumba
![Patrice Lumumba and his cabinet.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/13%20Lumumba%20and%20Cabinet.jpg?itok=SgICvmO2)
Lumumba and Cabinet
![Artisan miners in the Congo.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/24%20Wollframite%20and%20Casserite%20Mines.jpg?itok=nGZ7mKlh)
Wollframite and Casserite Mines
![A meeting for rape victims.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/25%20Victims%20of%20Sexual%20Violence.jpg?itok=enLVRZ0A)
Victims of Sexual Violence
![Congolese women speaking with the International Rescue Committee’s gender-based violence program coordinator.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/26%20International%20Rescue%20Committee.jpg?itok=F88Si5tr)
International Rescue Committee
![United Nations Force Intervention Brigade in 2013.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/27%20UN%20Force%20Intervention%20Brigade.jpg?itok=j_VKSVmO)
United Nations Force Intervention Brigade
![International observers and UN Peace Keepers in the Congo.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/29%20Congolese%20Elections.jpg?itok=BZS34qSR)
Congolese Elections
![U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley visiting the Congo.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/32%20Nikki%20Haley.jpg?itok=nPOIXJ6Q)
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley
![A 2009 infographic suggesting a link between heavily mined areas and conflict regions in the Congo.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/33%20Coltan%20Infographic.jpg?itok=ZU40ItZF)
Coltan Infographic
![A Statue of a Despised Belgian Colonial Aent, Maximillen Balot.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/09-balot-frontal.jpg?itok=VqHIZ4L-)
A Statue of a Despised Belgian Colonial Aent, Maximillen Balot
![A 2016 graph of internal displacement in Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/20171206-Africa-report-2017-SoMe-1.png?itok=leiCiksP)
African Displacement Country Trends in 2016