The Acuity of Mai Mai movements in D.R. Congo

The causes of the emergence of armed groups in the Beni region can be of internal or external origin. The external causes can be summed up in three: the cause of resources which abound in the Beni region the weakness of the reaction of the international community in the face of the serious foreign crimes otherwise present in the D.R. Congo. Thus as for the causes related to the race for raw materials we can cite the economic stakes based essentially on the desire of neighboring countries and even *s the great Western powers as well as multinationals to have control over the natural resources that abound in the country. It is this desire that pushes them to support and if need be to create from scratch some armed groups in the D.R.Congo or so-called rebellions that will try to exploit some internal causes to advance their political claims and may even be led by a straw man to give an internal appearance to the conflict but the real goal is the access to the existing natural resources of this beautiful country the D.R.Congo.