Congo Resources

While we're on the topic of African women being photographed, some Congolese women are the subject of this art installation in Chicago.

From JR Art : Today, after more than a year of planning, 2000 square meters of rooftops have been covered with photos of the eyes and faces ...

Two weeks into Operation Umoja Wetu, and we have yet to hear about any significant clashes between government and FDLR forces. We know that ...

Maybe not as badly as you might think : On 6 November, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released updated forecasts showing that economi...

Kofi Annan : It will be incredibly short-sighted, as well as immoral--I'm sorry to use that word--for the wealthiest nations to use the ...

Memo to Self: There's no such thing as too much cynicism. Colette Braeckman reports that Bernard Kouchner, glamorous hero to the left, ...

From Foreign Policy : Sources tell The Cable that retired ambassador Johnnie Carson, a long time Africa hand and foreign service officer who...

Radio Okapi is reporting that the Rwandan army seized Munzenze, an important FDLR base located near Mabenga, in Virungu National Park, on S...

From China Brief, an article on " Commodity Flux and China’s Africa Strategy" During the commodity price boom, China invested mas...

From the Washington Post : Alan Doss, the top U.N. ambassador to Congo, stressed the need for civilian protection during the operation but n...