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…
Read MoreGoma conference on Peace and Security (January 2008) document
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO ACTE D’ENGAGEMENT We: – CNDP, Politico-Military Movement, – PARECO/FAP, – KASINDIAN MAI-MAI, – KIFUAFUA MAI-MAI, – VURONDO MAI-MAI, –…
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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
Civil Society Voices in the Congo Peace Process
Mary Robinson the UN Special Envoy told the New York Times that she listens to taxi drivers so Fidel Bafilemba and Timo Mueller took…
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Negotiating Congo peace in Kampala
Since the beginning of the negotiations in Kampala between M23 rebels and the DR Congo government, I have continually flagged that international interlocuters, either…
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