A hiccup in efforts to render mineral trade more transparent?

Bloomberg had an article this week suggesting that the US legislation against conflict… Read More

How not to write about Congo

Let me take a page from Binyavanga Wainaina’s essay and blog my own… Read More

It appears that President Kabila’s constitutional revisions are already paying off. Yesterday, Etienne… Read More

This is the second in a series of postings based on extracts from US… Read More

About three weeks ago, the various Congolese listservs I am subscribed to stopped talking… Read More

Some good news from the East, finally. Following up on previous reports about the… Read More

Congo Siasa will be publishing a series of articles over the coming weeks drawing… Read More

Reuters carried this story two days ago, an interview with Tshisekedi in which… Read More

It is a plot made in Hollywood – last Thursday, a Gulfstream jet arrived… Read More

We will be teaching a course this summer on the politics and history of… Read More

There must be something in the water these days that makes journalists prone to… Read More

A few updates: The Congolese government signed a deal yesterday with its Chinese… Read More

This past week there was a breakthrough in peace negotiations between the national army… Read More

A friend sent me this paragraph from an internal UN agency report this week. Read More

Stephen Kinzer, a staunch supporter of Rwandan President Paul Kagame just published an opinion… Read More