5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday (or on occasion, on Saturday) ...
U.S. and U.N. Target M23 Commander with Sanctions
The U.S. Treasury Department announced its move to add top M23 commander Sultani Makenga to its list of Congolese warlords under sanctions for their role in stoking violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
Activist, Prominent Doctor Denis Mukwege Targeted in Congo Attack
Gunmen apparently targeting prominent doctor and Congolese activist Denis Mukwege left a security guard at Mukwege’s home dead and a community shaken. The attack occurred Thursday evening in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu, where Mukwege’s Panzi Hospital has long treated some of the region’s most vulnerable patients—women suffering from fistula ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
Congo Dispatch: Key Minerals Smuggling Ring is in Good Health in Goma
Details from a confidential U.N. Group of Experts report on Congo emerged last week that show that smuggling of minerals into Rwanda and Burundi is on the rise, in spite of Congolese government efforts to regulate the trade. Furthermore, it seems that the profits from minerals clandestinely transported across the border are being used to fund the M23 rebellion, which began in April and has left half a million people displaced. An incident and court case that transpired in Goma earlier this month, described in a new Enough field dispatch, provides a compelling illustration of how those smuggling operations work ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...