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African nations have endured decades of internal strife as they try to reconcile some of these ethnic differences.

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there was resistance through population changes through migration and rebellion.

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By the end of the 19th century, the Congo Basin had been carved up by European colonial powers, into the Congo free state, the French Congo and the Portuguese Congo.

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Colonial rule in the Congo began in the late 19th century. King Leopold II of Belgium attempted to persuade the Belgian government to support colonial expansion around the then-largely unexplored Congo Basin. Their ambivalence resulted in Leopold's establishing a colony himself.

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the European country Belgium and King Leopold colonized the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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The people of the Congo area were very lucky because their land was one of the last areas to be colonized. The dense jungle and unknown animals that lived in it scared European explorers away for years. It was not until the late 1880's when the empire eventually fell due to their Belgium colonizers.