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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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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DRC: Rwanda responds to accusations as aid gets halted
As Rwanda ‘leaks’ part of its official rebuttal to the UN report that accuses it of complicity in the growing M23 insurgency in the…
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DR Congo mutineers and the role of Rwanda
As the UN Security Council prepares to release yet another report that demonstrates high-level Rwandan support for violence in the DR Congo, is it…
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Secret Mining deals in the DR Congo
It is absurd that a country with more forests than Brazil, more minerals than Australia, more oil than Norway and more hydro-power potential than…
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