Highlights of the UN mapping report: 1993-1996

As opposed to what some press accounts may have you believe, the UN mapping report… Read More

The vulnerable link in the minerals trade: Banks

Some of us have been wondering how this hue and cry and conflict minerals will… Read More

Over a year after its completion, the UN mapping report has finally been leaked to… Read More

As you may have read in the papers, at least 179 women were raped… Read More

There’s nothing Congolese politicians enjoy quite as much as elections. So much, in fact, that… Read More

Because it is now out in the open that Dan Gertler, the prominent Israeli… Read More

Who said the investment climate in the Congo is poor? A few… Read More

Two brief articles of interest: John Numbi, the chief of police in the Congo,… Read More

Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf published this article on The Huffington Post about whither Rwanda. Scott wrote… Read More

A delegation from US oil giant Chevron visited Kinshasa several weeks ago to discuss the… Read More

Congo watchers, take some advice: ignore Burundi at your peril. Ok, that was a bit ominous, but most of us try to keep… Read More

I few days ago, I asked whether Rwanda should follow in Singapore’s steps and clamp… Read More

A couple of blog posts ago, I summarized some of the complaints leveled against… Read More

Two new accounts out on the LRA’s recent activity by Human Rights Watch and… Read More

A couple of days ago, the Congolese electoral authority announced the election calendar for the… Read More