DRC - "The Land of Opportunity"
The following info was extracted from: Denis Kadima and Dieudonné Tshiyoyo 2009 "Chapter 4:
Democratic Republic of Congo" IN Denis Kadima and Susan Booysen (eds)
The political history of the DRC has been periodized as follows:
Pre-colonial Congo
Congo Free State: 1878 - 1908
Belgian colonialism: 1908 - 1960
First Republic: 1960 - 1965
Second Republic: 1965 - 1990
Third Republic: 1990 - 1997
Civil war: 1997 - 2002
Peace process: 2002 - May 2006
Transition to Democracy: June - December 2006