In recent days, persistent speculations have circulated that former President Joseph Kabila, and former CNDP leader General Laurent Nkunda may be preparing to join the Congo River Alliance (AFC/M23). Though…
Since yesterday, the city of Uvira has remained off from all forms of telecommunication. Internet is down and GSM networks are all dead. Emails, messaging platforms and every modern means…
Ce qui se dit à Davos sur le Congo n’a presque rien à voir avec ce que vivent réellement les Congolais. Le rituel annuel des grandes déclarations, du jargon humanitaire…
Human Rights Watch (HRW), through its senior Great Lakes researcher Clémentine de Montjoye, recently published another biased report on the situation in Uvira following the withdrawal of AFC/M23 forces. Once…
What is said about the Congo in Davos has almost nothing to do with what is lived in the country itself. The annual ritual of lofty statements, humanitarian buzzwords, and…
Following the withdrawal of M23, Wazalendo and Interahamwe militias re-entered Uvira, with a berserk bloodthirst. They massacred civilians. They raped. They engaged in widespread looting. In other words these thugs…
The withdrawal of AFC/M23 from Uvira was a good gesture – to give peace a chance and satisfy international mediators, notably Qatar and Washington DC. This act of good faith…
Shortly after the M23 withdrew from the city of Uvira, Burundi, the DRC’s partner in crime, quickly reopened the Gatumba border, which it had kept closed for nearly a month,…
La pression américaine qui a contraint l’AFC/M23 à se retirer d’Uvira sera présentée comme une victoire diplomatique, une démonstration de fermeté de ce pays au nom de la paix. En…
The pressure by the US that forced the AFC/M23 to withdraw from Uvira will be sold as a diplomatic success, or proof of the country’s resolve in the name of…
