According to respectable international estimates some four million people have died in the Congo as a result of wars there since 1996, the greatest toll anywhere since World War II.
There is a powerful argument to be made that this disaster, along with the Rwandan genocide that preceded it, is Bill Clinton’s most important foreign policy legacy, and an Obama policy toward Africa run by many of the same people and carrying forward Clinton era thinking would be a sign of disdain for the continent and its problems.
A site tracking political and military developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with a focus on resource exploitation.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Last Time Wolpe Was Envoy
This happened. From Howard French, who was the NYT correspondent to Africa when it all went down:
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