The Colombian government and the leftist FARC rebel group have finally reached a peace deal, the two sides announced on…
More than 100 people have starved to death at a Congolese military camp, and Human Rights Watch says that the…
M23 rebels on patrol. The M23 rebel group that has led a twenty-month insurgency in the east of the Democratic…
Given the drumbeat of bad news and eruptions of violence out of eastern Congo, it’s easy to think whatever is happening there is just more of the same – the same, chronic fights between DR Congo’s somewhat dysfunctional military (not to mention its government) and the variously named militias operating for any number of causes (including just pure criminality) in the region. But in fact, things may be a bit different this time.
Howard G. Buffett is pushing the international community to fully restore aid to Rwanda. When a UN Group of Experts (GoE) report found that Rwanda was supporting rebels fighting a deadly conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a number of countries including the U.S. and Britain cut or suspended foreign aid in protest. Howard Buffett and Tony Blair loudly protested the aid cuts.
Katherine McKeon This is a guest post by Katherine McKeon, a UW communications major who recently returned to Seattle after…