The Republic of East Kongo is a federal republic located in central sub-Saharan Africa, east of West Kongo, south of Camenbal, west of Zanzibar and Ethiopia and north of Zululand. East Kongo is, like its neighbor, an impoverished nation with a history of political and economic instability in the 1960's and 1970's, although since the early 1990's it has enjoyed a democratic government and internal peace, despite a continuation of tribal conflicts along the frontier with West Kongo.