Row over debt cancellation

Several days ago, the Paris Club of lenders announced that it would cancel all of… Read More

Oxfam Report on SSR in the Congo

Oxfam has just released a report on US efforts towards security sector reform in the Congo. It’s a nice summary of the initiatives the… Read More

A new report on the Congo has come out by the International Crisis Group that… Read More

I was on a panel on Friday on conflict minerals, which was very instructive. Toby… Read More

Gen. Faustin Munene, who disappeared several weeks ago from Kinshasa in mysterious circumstances, has resurfaced… Read More

The BBC ran a nice piece today on Gen. Gabriel Amisi,( aka Tango Four) –… Read More

According to sources in the national assembly, the members of the new national electoral commission… Read More

The World Bank put out its year « Doing Business » report where it reports on how… Read More

Some of the stories I haven’t been blogging on but should have: The South Korean… Read More

There have been several scandals in the Congo over the past month that have gone… Read More

We are still a long way away from elections in the Congo (November 2011 is the chimerical date), but, as any Congo Siasa… Read More

A report was released last week by the Open Society Justice Initiative, penned by… Read More

A bunch of Congolese politicians have recently been courting Jean-Pierre Bemba, the head of the… Read More

Believe it or not, despite the headlines of UN failures, there have been some modest gains… Read More

Just a few months ago, President Kabila’s outlook wasn’t too bad. He had achieved debt… Read More