Jeune Afrique investigates the Force du progrès, a youth group accused of running an intimidation racket in Kinshasa with alleged ties to President Tshisekedi's inner circle.
While Congo's youth unemployment crisis festers at 70%, Tshisekedi's "Force du progrès" has weaponized desperation, turning jobless young Congolese into tax-collecting militias who terrorize their own communities. This isn't youth empowerment. It's state-sanctioned extortion that mirrors the same extractive violence that has plagued the DRC since King Leopold, except now it's Congolese hands doing the dirty work for political elites.
While Congo's youth unemployment crisis festers at 70%, Tshisekedi's "Force du progrès" has weaponized desperation, turning jobless young Congolese into tax-collecting militias who terrorize their own communities. This isn't youth empowerment. It's state-sanctioned extortion that mirrors the same extractive violence that has plagued the DRC since King Leopold, except now it's Congolese hands doing the dirty work for political elites.
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