In the Delta region, the extraction of the country's wealth before their eyes has created a culture of discontent among the thousands of unemployed youths.
Yet Katanga has enjoyed relative peace in recent years, in large part thanks to the province's popular governor Moise Katumbi, a billionaire Roman Abramovich-esque character who has regulated the region's previously chaotic natural mineral extraction and bankrolled TP Mazembe in the process.