Congo Resources

I wrote this in 1993, perhaps, in a two-bedroom house where I lived for a year on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas, a half-block from Haske...

I went boating with the alleged war criminal General François Olenga a few weekends ago (in August, 2017), at the riverside resort he bu...

This gif, showing African poverty numbers growing as the rest of the world's decline, is sobering. Here's a link: http://www.tha...

Many years ago, when I was young and harbored the dream of becoming the next George Orwell, I lived for a year in a shanty town in eastern...

The Intercept published a long, not especially well-informed piece on Trump's proposed roll-back of the conflict minerals provision. I p...

This is a draft of the first part of an abandoned two-part book review I wrote a while back about three books about the origins and sprea...

How much does the legacy of Mobutu and Kabila cost the people of DR Congo? One way is to compare the infant mortality rate to other neighbor...

 From remarks John Kerry gave at the  LiveAtState  virtual press conference: Question: “What is the U.S.’s interest in South Sudan? And ...

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 .