Sabre-rattling and armed clashes between the DRC, Rwanda, Uganda and others could see a repeat of the world’s deadliest conflict since WWII.

Justice Malala is a political commentator and former editor of South Africa’s This Day. He is the author of “The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation.”

Soldiers of the Democratic Republic of Congo Army.Photographer: SEROS MUYISA/AFP
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World leaders are scrambling to avert a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah. There is another war, on a scale perhaps unimaginable to many, they should rush to prevent as well.

It’s a repeat, like Israel-Hezbollah in 2006, of a war that raged between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda between August 1998 and July 2003. By the time it ended, nine African countries and 20 rebel groups were involved. At least 5.4 million people died through fighting, disease and malnutrition. Seven million were displaced. Africa’s World War — or the Great War of Africa, as it came to be known — was the world’s deadliest conflict since World War II.

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