Democratic Republic of the Congo - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Democratic Republic of the Congo Index / Locations Transcripts Gayle Smith ...conflict on the continent, in the Congo , West Africa, Sierra Leone, Guinea... Scott Gration ...Gration born in Illinois and raised in Congo in Africa. Scott Gration grew up i... ...how it came to be that you grew up in Congo and East Africa? Well, I was born i... ...issues. And then they pressed on to Congo . Again, this was an unknown, and m... ...that you first grew up in, in Congo , can you just describe those a bit... ...point. You and your family left the Congo . Can you take us there and describ... ...Sure. On the thirtieth of June of 1960, Congo gained its independence. Its firs... ...they said, “You're taking the wealth of Congo and we're going to keep it.” And s... ...refugees that were streaming out of Congo . Then, finally, my father go... ...forty-six years. I had first met her in Congo . Our parents had studied together i... ...figure out what was next, once you left Congo ? Well, you've got to understand, th... ...listening to this thing, evacuated from Congo when we lost everything. I wouldn'... Show more... Patrick Gaspard ...in the place I was born, the DRC [ Democratic Republic of the Congo ], but certainly South Africa, and if ... Jean Pierre Mbagurire ...like Uganda country and the DRC [ Democratic Republic of the Congo ], people even came to Rwanda to loo... ...country team in Democratic Republic of Congo , what you call DRC, Kinshasa. ... Mark Lippert ...to go to the Democratic Republic of Congo . That actually was postponed becaus... ...African nexus was logical there. The Congo , because the humanitaria... Johnnie Carson ...hesitant to say so. It didn't work in Democratic Republic of the Congo . But people said, “You guys brushed i... Kenneth Roth ...in easing out [Joseph] Kabila in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Kabila was not a Kagame, Museveni... Ben Rhodes ...war in the [Democratic Republic of the] Congo [DRC], and did anybody ever ask us t... ...interest, you would think that Congo would be a bigger crisis than eve... Hillary Clinton ...town hall in the Democratic Republic of Congo , or Phnom Penh, or Ramallah, o... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism