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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Dictators R Us: Gabon as the latest UK best friend
After a quick visit to Saudi Arabia it now seems clear that the UK government of David Cameron is determined not to let a…
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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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Gambians in the UK stage a day of protest against executions
“Everyone at home lives in fear” said the young mother protesting outside the UK Foreign Office, “it has to change we are peaceful…
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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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