Europe Is Destroying Africa especially Nigeria 🇳🇬 and DR Congo 🇨🇩
Over the last 25 years, Congo has lost over $24 trillion in stolen gold, cobalt, coltan, and other minerals, wealth that built Europe's tech, aerospace, defense, and electric car industries.
Every decade, Nigeria and Congo together lose over $500 billion through stolen oil, looted minerals, illicit financial flows, and corporate profit extraction by European companies.
Nigeria loses over $100 billion every year from underpriced oil, shady joint ventures, and theft. Shell alone made $4 billion in profit from Nigerian oil in 2022.
TotalEnergies took $2 billion from Nigeria's offshore fields, while millions of Nigerians live in darkness and poverty.
Glencore extracts $2 billion annually in copper and cobalt from Congo, fueling Europe's $100 billion electric vehicle and smartphone markets, while Congolese children dig mines with bare hands.
European-instigated wars and conflicts in Congo have killed over 6 million people and destroyed opportunities worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Billions in European arms sales flooded both Nigeria and Congo, ensuring permanent instability.
Africa spends over $4 billion annually training doctors, engineers, and scientists. Yet Nigeria and Congo lose over 20,000 skilled workers every year to Europe, draining over $3 billion in human capital. Nigeria alone supplies over 5,000 doctors to the UK's NHS, costing Nigeria billions in lost healthcare capacity.
Meanwhile, European corporations dominate every key sector in Nigeria and Congo - oil, mining, banking - exporting hundreds of billions in profits while leaving local communities jobless and underdeveloped.
The oil powering European cars, the cobalt powering European phones, the gold sitting in European vaults, the labor running European hospitals - all come from Nigeria and Congo.
Europe isn't helping Nigeria and Congo. Europe is bleeding them dry.