The M23 have consolidated their control over the border municipalities of Rutshuru and Massisi, and also occupying critical areas around Goma in what amounts to a military encirclement and an occupation, all of this unchallenged by the Congolese national army… Read More ›
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DRC: A Return to Conflict and Instability
The situation in the Eastern DRC is fast approaching the insecurity of 2003/4 and of 2007/8 when both Kivus were caught in a vicious cycle of violence and violent defense by a profusion of armed groups, both of Congolese and… Read More ›
Justice in the DRC: Arrest Bosco Ntaganda Now!
During the last two days, Bosco has deserted his post and the command structure of the FARDC and is establishing an alternative military command in Goma with the support of 3 FARDC integrated battalions made up of ex-CNDP and PARECO… Read More ›
Justice in the DRC: Arrest Bosco Ntaganda
Bosco is a war criminal who is responsible for the tortured death of thousands of Congolese men, women and children. He continues to operate as a CNDP General integrated and protected by the FARDC (the national Congolese Army) and even… Read More ›
Dividing up the Congo: the Kabila-Kagame Pact
It is the case of the mouse that scared the elephant. Rwanda, specifically Kagame scares the hell out of Congo,specifically Kabila. On the handful of occasions that the two have met, the public part of the meetings are carefully stage-managed… Read More ›
