The Battle for Oil in Virunga National Park
The World Wildlife Fund recently announced a victory in the fight to prevent British oil company Soco from drilling in Congo’s Virunga National Park…
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Burundi rights defender says the problem is political power not ethnic relations
Burundi should be proud of a man like Pierre Claver Mbonimpa who devotes his life to the service of his country but instead it…
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CNN in Nigeria bringing back our girls and the law of unimagined consequences
This is going to sound like heresy, the cold steel of a knife cutting through the warm flesh of idealism but as the…
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Operation Sokola Congo army launches offensive against ADF rebels
Operation Sokola It is now a little over two weeks since the Congolese army, FARDC, launched their offensive against the Ugandan rebel group ADF…
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ADF-NALU and Islam, militant and mercenary
Continuing the ADF project – Islam In a recent piece for Al Jazeera I wrote that the Beni-based rebel group ADF-NALU is obscured by…
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South Sudan crisis map December 2013
Why are Muslims in the Congo almost invisible?
During the summer I was in Beni, North Kivu researching armed groups and local instability and training Congolese journalists. I was the only foreign…
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Watoto wa Beni: an Unexploded Bomb in North Kivu
Violence is on the rise in little-reported on Beni, as armed men compete amidst claims that a militant group has links to Somalia’s al-…
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