Updates on the electoral process

I will be updating my posting from Friday on electoral troubles as stories come… Read More

Is the focus on conflict minerals justified?

My article in Foreign Policy received several helpful comments from friends who objected to the… Read More

I was asked to write a (very) small side-box in the Financial Times to… Read More

Sometimes it’s good to take a step back and look at the Congo in historical… Read More

I will be updating this post to include articles on electoral troubles as they come… Read More

Here’s a link to my article in Foreign Policy on conflict minerals and US policy… Read More

In my posting on the Crisis Group report from a couple of days ago, I… Read More

A paper was published today in the American Journal of Public Health with a… Read More

Tired of just hearing about killing and suffering from the Congo? Viva Riva!, the… Read More

There has been some trouble brewing over the past few months in Bas-Congo and Bandundu… Read More

A new ICG report was published this week that obviates the need for me… Read More

I’m back finally after almost two weeks of absence from Congo Siasa. While I’ve been missing, there have been… Read More

Easter was celebrated in Kinshasa with several political events. First, Etienne Tshisekedi held a large… Read More

With only seven months to go before elections in the Congo, donors are trying to… Read More

Some news items of interest: The MLC party has changed leadership – Thomas Luhaka,… Read More