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5 March 2010
Amnesty International has said it strongly opposes any withdrawal or reduction of the numbers of UN peacekeepers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, after the government requested that the current force (MONUC) withdraws from the country by June 2011.
George Forrest embodies the symbiosis of business and politics in the Congo. (He is also very litigation-happy, so I better watch what I say here). There is apparently nothing that the…
The US Supreme Court will soon rule on a case of great importance to the Congo. Well, not really, but it does reveal an interesting loop hole in international diplomacy and law.
In Holder v….
Human Rights - Justice for victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
There was a good article in the Africa-Asia Confidential newsletter last week on the Congo-China deal. (You can read it for free here). According to a parliamentary commission, some $23 million…
As expected, the CNDP is not happy about not getting any cabinet positions in PM Muzito’s new government line-up. ” A violation of the peace deal,” they called it in their press statement. Kabila’s…
There hasn’t been an ‘official’ war in the Democratic Republic of Congo for seven years. But, for most of last year, government forces have been going all-out to rid the east of the country of one of its most notorious rebel Hutu militias.
But the military operation to defeat them has caused more than nearly a million people to flee their homes and led to a record rise in reported rapes, some carried out by Congolese government soldiers themselves.
Correspondent Mike Thomson reports on popular fears surrounding this new military operation.
WATCH how your mobile phone is fueling conflict in the Congo
Photographer Rankin found humanity in abundance on his return to Congo in 2009 when he asked villagers to tell him about the people and things they love.
A little update on the Whistle Boys story from a few blogs ago:
According to a friend who was in Goma at the time, the managers of the organization earned the wrath of journalists when they got…
A Doctor and His Patient Dr. Denis Mukwege and his young patient try to assert humanity and dignity in war-torn eastern Congo, Nicholas D. Kristof reports.
Nicholas D Kristof - So far the brutal war in eastern Congo has not only lasted longer than the Holocaust but also appears to have claimed more lives. A peer- reviewed study put the Congo war’s death toll at 5.4 million as of April 2007 and rising at 45,000 a month. That would leave the total today, after a dozen years, at 6.9 million.
