Reports from Baraka, a strategic town in South Kivu, indicate growing discontent among Burundian soldiers deployed to fight alongside the Congolese army. Multiple sources within the ranks suggest that troops…
Face à l’effondrement sécuritaire et social qui frappe la République Démocratique du Congo, Félix Tshisekedi s’est imposé comme le maître incontesté de l’externalisation de ses propres échecs. Plutôt que d’assumer…
Pendant que le président Félix Tshisekedi foule les tapis rouges des sommets internationaux et prononce de grands discours sur la paix, la tolérance et la coexistence, nous, enfants de l’Est…
The eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo have long been an open wound, but the ongoing bloodshed in Ituri province represents a horrific failure of state protection. At…
The international community convened in Luanda, Angola, for the third edition of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Global Summit under a noble banner, calling for global peace, the cessation…
When Félix Tshisekedi assumed the presidency of the Democratic Republic of Congo in January 2019, he presented himself as a leader who would bring fundamental change to a country burdened…
Less than two years after taking control of vast swathes of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the AFC/M23 movement has delivered what many residents describe as unprecedented improvements in security,…
Key Congolese opposition members have rejected Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye’s invitation. They saw right through Ndayishimiye, who was masquerading as a mediator while simply being a Tshisekedi tool. Loudly, they…
The Ndayishimiye-Tshisekedi alliance is in trouble; on the military front, they have just suffered another humiliating defeat at Point-Zero (South Kivu province). That’s while on the political side, Tshisekedi is…
Today, the Democratic Republic of Congo celebrates its independence, but there is little to cheer. Sixty-six years after throwing off Belgian colonial rule, Congo is sinking deeper into a new,…
