Democratic+Republic+of+Congo

By Tchela Mbumba

=__My C**ountry Facts**__=

**General Information:**

 * Official country name:** The democratic Republic of Congo.
 * Year that country joined the UN:** 2004.

__﻿People__
Congolese.
 * 1. What are the people from the country called?**

The official language is French, the other languages spoken are Lingala, Kingwana, Kikongo, and Tshiluba.
 * 2. What is the official language? What other languages do people speak?**

The most practiced religion is Roman Catholicism.
 * 3. What is the most-practiced religion?**

The 46.9% of them are from 0 to 14 years old, 50.6 of them are from 15-64 years old, and the 2.5% of them are 65 years and over.
 * 4. What is the age estructure?**

__﻿Government__
Joseph Kabila.
 * 1. What is the name of the leader of the country?**

The type of government is ruled by a Republic.
 * 2. What type of government is the country ruled by?**

The political parties of the country are: The Christian Democrat Party, the Congolese Rally, the Convention of Christian Democrats, the Forces of Renewal, Movement of the liberation of the Congo, People's Party for the Reconstruction and Democracy, Social Movement of Renewal, Unified Lumumbist Party, Union for Democracy and Social Progress, Union of Mobutubist Democrats.
 * 3. What are the main political parties of the country?**

Yes; it was a colony in 1908, but in 1960 it gained its independence.
 * 4. Was your country ever a colony? If so, when did it gain its independence?**

The chief of mision is Ambassador Faida Mitifu.
 * 5. Who is the chief of mision of the diplomatic representation in the US?**

__Geography__
It is located in Central Africa, northeast of Angola.
 * 1. Where is the country?**

The nations that border the country are: Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, The Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
 * 2. What other nations border the country?**

The landscape is a vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east.
 * 3. What kind of landscape does the country have?**

The natural resources that they have are cobalt and copper.
 * 4. What natural resources do they have?**

__﻿Economy__
Agriculture (55%), industry (11%), services (34%).
 * 1. What is the most common sector of employement in the country?**

NA%.
 * 2. What is the unemployment rate in your country?**

Congolese franes per US dollar, NA (2007), 464.69 (2006), 437.86 (2005), 401.04 (2004), 405.3 (2003).
 * 3. What exchange rates do they have?**

The history of the banner and the culture of the country.
 * The most surprising thing I learned about my country was:**

=My predictions= I think that animal traficking can be removed from my country, National parks is helping to solve this problem but slowly, also by the civil wars and bad economy they suffered they can't do much about it. For now, the only they can do to solve it is trying to focuse on destroying the weapons used at that wars, because with them they kill the animals to sell ilegaly their meat and kill the guards of the natural parks.

Child labour could be avoided but it will cost money to the country and even to other countries because the copper will quit money to the economy.

=﻿position paper:= -Democratic Republic of Congo's position paper (1.st draft)