From Mutaho to Kampala––What’s next?

For weary observers of the M23-FARDC standoff, the cycle of events is becoming all… Read More

What will become of the national dialogue?

While international attention continues to focus on the M23––there have been persistent skirmishes to… Read More

Back to blogging after a two month long hiatus. I will be catching up… Read More

Ban Ki-Moon, Jim Kim, and Mary Robinson came to the Great Lakes region this… Read More

The intervention brigade is on its way, and it has inspired Cassandras and Pollyannas… Read More

The Rwandan government issued a $400 million Eurobond yesterday, successfully borrowing capital on… Read More

A court in Bukavu today sentenced the former governor of South Kivu Déogratias Buhamba… Read More

Numerous sources are now reporting on the arrest of General Stanislas Nzeyimana (aka Izabayo… Read More

The Raia Mutomboki are perhaps the largest armed group in the eastern Congo, in… Read More

Maria Eriksson Baaz is Associate Professor at the Nordic Africa Institute and the School of… Read More

The following is a guest blog by Anthony Gambino, the former USAID director in… Read More

For those interested in the debate surrounding peacekeeping and local violence––which Sévérine Autesserre launched… Read More

The UN Security Council just voted in MONUSCO’s new mandate yesterday. The most remarkable… Read More

There has been a lot of conjecture and speculation surrounding Bosco’s “surrender” to the… Read More