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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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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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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Salaam Kivu International Film Festival Agizo ya Lumumba Justice
A conscious social critique by finalists of SKIFF 2013 by Doris, Dak2, Black man ,DMD, BIN-G, Babu, Wanny S-king, Dj couleur, M-chris, Nathan, Jobson…
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Bordering on the Dangerous: The Invisible Frontline in North Kivu
While international media attention focuses on events in Goma, the political and military landscape of the eastern Congo is changing as Kabila’s hold becomes…
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Goma is threatened as the international community fails DR Congo
As the UN forces in the DR Congo, MONUSCO, use helicopter gunships to repel M23 insurgents, who are now 6km from Goma, the UN…
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Diplomatic missions are masking military build-ups in the DR Congo
Like a child’s game of peekaboo, the current view of the conflict percolating in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo seems to be ‘if…
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Rwanda withdraws special forces from DR Congo with a little help from friends?
The plot just keeps thickening in the Kivus as Rwanda withdraws their special forces from the FARDC 8th Military Region. First they choose to…
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