Congo Resources

In a dramatic turn of events,  one of the leading advocacy groups for the conflict minerals campaign has outed itself as a mole for the US ...

Cool graphic from South Africa's TimesLive .

Statement by  Mary Robinson ,  United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights  on  April 20, 1998 : Today's decision by the Secreta...

On conflict minerals, a devastating new analysis from the Pole Institute : Thus, a pattern is emerging in which Kivu's mining sector ...

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...