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A few stories of interest: Rwanda suspends two newspapers critical of the government for… Read More

Announcing a course on the Great Lakes

COMPRENDRE LA RÉGION DES GRANDS LACS: NOUVEAU STAGE D’ÉTUDES ORGANISÉ PAR L’INSTITUT DE LA VALLÉE DU RIFT… Read More

Lambert Mende, the inimitable Congolese minister of information, is anything but understated. A few… Read More

A quick update on the bizarre events that have been unfolding in Mbandaka. As… Read More

More news from Rwanda: President Kagame shuffled his military… Read More

Last week was Ibuka, Rwanda’s annual day to commemorate the genocide of 1994. Every… Read More

Ad companies in the Congo apparently have a sense of humor. Read More

News update: UN Secretary-General submitted a report to the Security Council on Monday,… Read More

1. The conflict in the DRC is all about minerals.Not quite. The war began… Read More

It was to be expected: President Kabila had broached the subject of changing the… Read More

For once, the Lord’s Resistance Army has found a point of agreement with the… Read More

For those who haven’t been following the Dongo crisis that closely (how is… Read More

Below is also a picture of Odjani, the leader of the militia, sitting in… Read More

The following is an interview with Refugees International’s Camilla Olson (advocate) and Steve Hege… Read More

I attended a panel discussion yesterday at Columbia University on peacebuilding in the Congo… Read More