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Monday, December 8, 2008

What Will Obama Do about Darfur?

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The Washington Post has an interesting article here about Sudanese leaders' wary reactions to Obama's victory. One Sudanese offici...

Human Rights Groups Denounce EU's Apathy

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A broad coalition of human rights groups today denounced the European Union's decision to not send troops to the DR Congo to help quell ...
Saturday, December 6, 2008

Who Are the FDLR?

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This piece in Wednesday's Washington Post tells the story of one family who escaped from the FDLR's clutches, and says that most of...

New Video from IRC on Congolese Refugees

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UN Formally Requests EU Troops

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Le Soir reports that UN head Ban Ki-moon sent a formal request to the EU for troops to help end the ongoing conflict in the DRC. The EU tr...

FDLR Asks for Dialogue

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More evidence the agreement between the Rwandan and Congolese governments to hunt down the FDLR in eastern Congo is for real: the FDLR is n...
Friday, December 5, 2008

Let Them Eat Peppermints

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So it turns out there's a horse riding center in Kinshasa. With fancy cocktail parties and all.

World to Congo: Bugger Off

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It's going to take six months to assemble the extra 3,000 troops MONUC requested last month. Amnesty International is rightly appalled ...

Quote of the Day

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Last month's plea from 44 civil society organizations in eastern Congo was unusually eloquent, as this brief from Human Rights Watch r...

Congo & Rwanda to Fight FDLR Together

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Rwanda and the DRC agreed to to fight together against the FDLR, the military rump of the Hutu extremist group responsible for the Rwandan...