Congo

Rwanda’s genocide and the bloody legacy of Anglo-American guilt

by News Sources 12.14.2012

Chris McGreal writes: The United States is allowing one tragic foreign policy failure to compound another. Eighteen years ago, President Bill Clinton watched passively as the Hutu extremist regime in Rwanda oversaw the murder of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis. His administration refused even to utter the word genocide for fear it would oblige the [...]

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The Israeli billionaire accused of looting Congo at the expense of its people

by News Sources 12.08.2012

Bloomberg Markets Magazine: Dan Gertler’s bearded face lights up as he looks out the helicopter window. Below, an installation twice the size of Monaco rises from a clearing in the central African forest, where it transforms ore mined from the ochre earth into sheets of copper. “Look at it, look at it,” the Israeli billionaire, [...]

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Congo: a case study in how not to run a peace process

by News Sources 12.08.2012

John Prendergast writes: Only in the Alice in Wonderland world of war-torn eastern Congo would the withdrawal of M23 rebels from Congo’s eastern provincial capital of Goma be cause for major celebration. The truth is that the retreat is just the latest chapter in a long story involving competing mafia-like political and military alliances controlled [...]

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Gaza grabs the headlines as Congo once more descends into chaos

by News Sources 11.25.2012

Ian Birrell writes: Once again, the apparently insoluble struggle between Israel and Palestine has flared up before flickering into uneasy standoff. As usual, world leaders issued fierce warnings, diplomats flew in and the media flooded the region to cover the mayhem as both sides spewed out the empty cliches of conflict. After eight days of [...]

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Economic crimes in Congo

by News Sources 07.25.2012

James North writes: The 73 million human beings who live here in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continue to struggle through one of the greatest humanitarian disasters on the planet since the end of the Second World War. By one estimate, more than 5 million people have died since the Second Congo War broke [...]

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Congo: Chaos by design

by News Sources 12.05.2011
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Obama, the U.S. and 5 million deaths in the Congo

by News Sources 12.04.2011
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The world capital of killing

by Paul Woodward 02.09.2010

Nicholas Kristof writes from Congo: It’s easy to wonder how world leaders, journalists, religious figures and ordinary citizens looked the other way while six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. And it’s even easier to assume that we’d do better. But so far the brutal war here in eastern Congo has not only lasted [...]

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