Sébastien Périmony Gives Interview to Sputnik Africa on Conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is driven by the demand for raw materials at low prices, the Schiller Institute’s Sébastien Périmony told Sputnik Africa in a Nov. 28 interview. With the growth of crypto, electric vehicles, and electronics more generally, there is a voracious demand for resources, Périmony explains. Companies therefore profit from the conflict in the D.R.C., “because raw materials are obtained at completely unreasonable prices due to plunder,” including via Rwanda. International actors fostering the conflict for their own financial purposes are thus complicit in genocide.