Donors and elections in the Congo

With elections approaching in the Congo, it is worthwhile reflecting on the role of… Read More

Elections: Can the opposition still unite?

Correction: There are only 11 presidential candidates. Ismael Kitenge did not register. Read More

(Please read the comments section, as well, for informative corrections and additions by Judith.)… Read More

The International Crisis Group released a new report on the Congo this week… Read More

There were violent scenes in Kinshasa on Monday and Tuesday. The chain of events… Read More

Philip Lancaster was General Romeo Dallaire’s Military Assistant in Rwanda in 1994, was the… Read More

Today, Bloomberg published yet another in a series of excellent reports on dubious… Read More

African Arguments, which is hosted by the Royal African Society and the Social Science… Read More

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

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

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

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

There has been a flurry of editorial and… Read More

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

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