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Exports: Coffee, cocoa, aluminum. Per capita income: $70. U.S. aid (1961): $2,100,000. Despite disease (malaria rate: nearly 100%), tribal terrorists, lack of transport, agricultural economy thrives; trade balance healthy...
Political parties: 2. Voters: 75%. Docile tribal society has little comprehension of politics. Autocratic Leon M'Ba, leader of Fang tribe and former Assemblyman, heads government...
...CONGO, Leopoldville (Bel.) Pop.: 17,000,000. Size: 905,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 20%. School attendance: 50%. College graduates: 35. Christians: Nominal 47%. In interior, population is almost totally illiterate; sorcery, ritual killings, tribal warfare persist. Less than 10% are serious Christians; 504 priests, 121 nongraduate doctors serve one of Africa's biggest populations...
Political parties: 9. Voters: 40%. Black Africa's most headlined country has almost total ignorance of Western- style government. Only minute proportion of people even aware Congo is nation. Political parties are inexperienced and on strictly tribal lines. Westward-leaning Cyrille Adoula is ablest Premier yet, but still insecure in nearly bankrupt country...
Exports: Coffee, sisal, meat. Per capita income: $96. U.S. aid (1961): $2,100,000. Communist infiltration may increase with independence, but U.S. has won high esteem through famine relief. Main problems: replacing 4,000 European civil servants; settling Africans on land, healing tribal schisms...