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https://dialogue.earth/content/uploads/2020/05/congo2.jpg142172In the Democratic Republic of Congo, village chiefs have naively exchanged precious timber rights for sugar and salt. Locals are angry, and the World Bank is being blamed. John Vidal reports from Kisangani.