Congo Resources

This is what the UN Mapping report looks like when displayed in wordle form. Wordle is a program that allows you generate "word clouds...

One is reminded of Robert Conquest's suggested revision to the title of his book on Stalin's crimes.

Why hasn't the International Crisis Group done anything on the DRC in nine months? Last update to their Congo crisis web page dates to J...

Ed Rackley posts the first article of a promised two-part series on John and Therese Hart, conservationists who have lived and worked in re...

Nicholas Kristof published four op-eds on the DRC recently, to a mix of cheers and boos. Over at Congo Siasa , Jason Stearns wonders why Kri...

Chris Smith, former chief Africa correspondent for Le Monde, writes about the not-quite demise of Françafrique in the latest London Review o...

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights J. Paul Getty

Here are three stories about the Congo. Try to figure out which one of them is fake: The first is about the Congo's space program, and ...

Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, at the Holocaust Museum on December 12, 2009, answering a question about her 2006 call for greater sanction...

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