Congo Resources

The Congolese state seems to me be teetering on the edge of collapse, about to forfeit even the appearance of control over the country. Cons...

I have written before about Congo being policy shorthand for "hopeless situation the cognoscenti know we're not going to do anythi...

Alex de Waal at the World Peace Foundation takes one hell of a whack at the Enough Project: Reclaiming Activism For most of my adult li...

Looks safe from up here [UPDATED 5/6 w/ embedded video--see below] One of the most poignant memories I have of the Asian Tsunami is of a...

Four reads today provide the most dire evidence yet that Congo is spiraling dangerously out of control. None suggests that an implosion is i...

[UPDATED BELOW 4/19] Some readers might remember that I set out a list of predictions regarding the impact of Dodd-Frank 1502 back in Febr...

Pete Jones has a piece in The Guardian about an attack last June on a village named Epulu in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve. The perpetrators w...

The M23 rebels have penned an open letter to Obama, asking him to scotch the proposed intervention brigade for eastern Congo. The inquiry...

I think it's safe to say that the M23 is not thrilled about the proposed intervention brigade: Kigali, 2013 04 06 Open Letter to H....

"We are not scared to go to war," SANDF spokesman Xolani Mabanga told SAfm."If they [M23] declare war against the SA Nationa...