Death threats against opposition leader in Bukavu

According to several sources, a leader of the opposition UNC party in Bukavu has received… Read More

Guest Blog: the FRF armed group

This is the last in a series of guest blogs on armed groups in the… Read More

Readers of this blog will probably have read David Aronson’s lucid Op-Ed in The… Read More

The following is an interview with Eric Kajemba, founder and director of Observatoire Gouvernance et… Read More

There has been a flurry of editorial and press statements… Read More

This is the next in a series of guest blogs by Judith Verweijen on armed… Read More

I have just returned from a three week trip to Central Africa – I promise… Read More

Voila the voter registration figures (h/t Rich). The figures haven’t been audited yet. Read More

It’s not too difficult to find Congolese army offiicers in a foul mood these days. Read More

The popular governor of Katanga Moise Katumbi has been gone from Lubumbashi with his family… Read More

This is a guest blog written by a diplomat based in the Congo. Read More

Part II: the ‘transition’ (2003-2006) and power shifts In part I of… Read More

This story just broke today. It’s huge in terms of money involved and the secretive… Read More

We’ll be offline for the next week due to travels and teaching. Read More

Today will be the first in a sequence of guest blogs on armed groups in… Read More