CONGO REPORT

BY KEITH NUTHALLIT is rare that an international organisation report on a scandal involving crime, corruption, war and environmental degradation names and shames high profile companies, but that is what is contained within the latest United Nations (UN) Security Council report on the Congo. Keith Nuthall reports.THERE seems to be an elusive quality to morality in the steamy and often trackless rain forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; there appears to be an ease of corruption that was murkily painted in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.Maybe it is the ...


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