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Due to the country’s hyperinflation rate of over 231,000,000% a year, the financial authorities were forced to release larger and larger bills in order to help people buy the simplest things without carrying bricks of bills with them. When the $10,000,000 bill was released early this year, it was worth about $4 US, but it [...]
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In the eastern mountains of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), a rebel army led by Laurent Nkunda – a former General of the DR Congo armed forces – recently launched attacks and captured territory after a peace treaty had failed with the government. Nkunda’s forces are Tutsi rebels, fighting against the DR Congo [...]