The reason they cannot - a reason confirmed in exhaustive detail by UN investigators, human rights groups and defectors - can be summed up in one word: Rwanda.
Mayange, Rwanda is one of the poorest towns in one of the poorest countries on earth.
Transparency International, an anti-corruption watchdog, rates Rwanda as one of the more honest countries in Africa.
Considering that Rwanda witnessed one of the most appalling waves of barbarity in history just 16 years ago, when around 800, 000 people were hacked to death in three months, the efficiency is extraordinary.
On a return trip to Rwanda last week, we saw ample evidence in Kigali: a new and fully-leased 20-story skyscraper, tower cranes that punctuate the skyline, and shiny metal roofs in rural areas that attest to growing household income. (Rwanda raised one million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2011.) Agricultural cooperatives improve efficiency and productivity.
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One day, however, Rwanda may end up administering the provinces of North and South Kivu.
Rwanda is also rated one of the least corrupt countries in Africa and easily the cleanest in its region.
By saying that, I mean I want one day to see my magazine in Rwanda, Burundi, in South Africa, I go to Congo and see it, I want to go to West Africa and see Bang!
One was extradited in 1997 to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania.
Special tribunals have been established under the auspices of the U.N. for war crimes committed in Rwanda and the now-defunct Yugoslavia, and one is being established for Sierra Leone.
One unlikely success story amid this gloom are the mountain gorillas of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Uganda, whose remaining matches are against Rwanda and Ghana, lead Group 13 with four points, one more than the four-time African champions.
One only need look at how the UK last month suspended aid to Rwanda amid concerns about its role in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He is particularly incensed by what he sees as collusion between one of those Hutu groups, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR, ) and the Congolese government.
And that is the main reason for Rwanda's move from an agricultural nation to a knowledge-based one.
The polio vaccine was given to at least one million people in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Burundi.
One building, which used to be army barracks, now plays a key role in filling Rwanda's skills gap.
Less than two weeks ago, a peace deal was signed in South Africa between the Congolese President, Joseph Kabila, and one of the key players in the four-year old war, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda.
The general, says one of them, had long ago gone rogue, putting his own interests ahead of those of a united Rwanda.
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