As a result, Congo is not a unified country. In fact, the eastern third of Congo is controlled by rebels who are fighting to overthrow the government of President Laurent Kabila. The rebels are supported by troops and supplies from Uganda and Rwanda. Mr. Kabila has the support of troops from Zimbabwe, Angola, Sudan, Chad, and Namibia. The answer is that Congo is too big and too rich for them not to care.
Congo is blessed with a wealth of natural resources such as copper, gold, diamonds, oil, and timber.
But Congo doesn't have the roads or equipment to get these natural resources out of the ground and to the marketplace. So despite its natural wealth, most of Congo's people are poor. Belgium, the European country that colonized Congo in the last century, took advantage of Congo's wealth but governed its people with astonishing cruelty. Then, after Congo won independence, a dictator named Mobutu Sese Seko took over the country in 1965. Mobutu amassed a personal fortune but did little to improve life for the vast majority of his people.