Synopsis
Dan Snow travels to Congo to reveal how its troubled history has turned one of the world's potentially richest countries into one of its poorest.
- Programme: This World
- Episode: Dan Snow's History of Congo
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2013
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