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Stop being an Ostrich when it comes to Rwanda’s role in the DRC

June 28, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergClinton, congo, DRC, Friends of Congo, Genocide, Kagame, M23, Mushikiwabo, Obama, RPF, Rwanda, UN Report

By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW The Sub Saharan region of Africa has been watched closely by the international community as of late. The news coming out of the region has many human rights activists and organizations’ asking a lot of questions about what is really going on between Rwanda and the DR Congo. Last week on June 19th 2012 President Kagame… Read More

President Paul Kagame on a Special visit to Uganda: But why?

June 13, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergDRC, Jennifer Fierberg, Kabila, Kagame, M23, Museveni, Ntanga, Rwanda, Uganda

By Rwema Francis and Jennifer Fierberg, MSW The Congolese Government’s reaction against the continued support of Rwanda to their enemies in the Congo has led President Kagame back to Uganda to plead for help from His Excellence Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. He was in Uganda yet again in order to seek help because he has nowhere else to turn to… Read More

CONFLICT IN NORTH KIVU PROVINCE OF THE DRC

June 5, 2012 Global Authorafrica, congo, DRC, EAC, Kabila, Kagame, London, M23, RPP, Rwanda, Rwanda peoples party

Malmo, Sweden, 04/06/2012Ref: RPP-0001-CNK/J03-GN01-DRC/C-JKV/CD/12J03 Today is not a day for pointing fingers and trading accusations as to who is supporting who or who is fighting who in the DRC. But it should be a day for consoling and showing our sympathy for the thousands of Congolese citizens who have been displaced and made homeless in their own country, and many... Read More

Lie: An order from President Kagame of Rwanda

June 2, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergcongo, DRC, Goma, Kagame, M23, MP's, RNC, Rwanda, Theogeme RUdasingwa, war

By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW Rwandan National Congress (RNC) Speaks on Rwanda’s issues in the CongoThe last few weeks have seen the Central Africa region, particularly the Congo and Rwanda; face many dualities of challenges; from the sentencing of warlords at the ICC to new rebel groups surfacing in the Congo. A central player in all of this has, once again,... Read More

Democratic Republic of Congo: Military Reform Urgently Needed

April 16, 2012 Global AuthorDRC, Kabila, OSISA

Kinshasa, April 16, 2012 - The international community and Congolese government must urgently agree upon a new deal to reform the Congolese military, according to a new report by 13 leading international and Congolese civil society groups. The report argues that the lack of political will to reform the security sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) risks... Read More

Forcibly displaced in South Kivu face a struggle to survive

March 14, 2012 Global AuthorDRC, FDLR, Kalehe, Kivu, Mai Mai Rape, refugees, Rwanda, UNHCR

14 March 2012 Some of the people forced to flee Shabunda wait for assistance in a neighbouring territory in South Kivu province. Survival is a challenge. BUNYAKIRI, Democratic Republic of the Congo, March 14 (2012) – Claudine* and her husband Pierre* fled their village in eastern Congo in early January and found shelter with thousands of others in Bunyakiri commune.… Read More

DRC Elections have left the region in peril

January 5, 2012 Global Authorcongo, DRC, elections, FDLR, Kabila, Kivus, militia, Shabunda

It has not even been a month since Joseph Kabila was “inaugurated” for another term as President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However in the period of time since the event has occurred other situations have arisen that will be seen in such a way that the situation can truly be described as Status Quo Pro Ante. First… Read More

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