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A beautiful country with poor leadership

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By Jennifer Fierberg The growing dissatisfaction with President Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo has encouraged more opposition parties to stand up and express this outrage. President Kabila has shown little leadership since he has come to power though the direction of the Rwandan President Paul Kagame in 2001 after the assassination of his father former President Laruent Kabila.… Read More

SADC Summit Ends With Call to End Regoinal Political Turmoil

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LILONGWE, MALAWI — A Southern African Development Community heads of state summit has ended in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, with a call for finding ways to end the volatile political situation facing people in the region and Africa as a whole. In her remarks at the close of the two-day gathering, the new chairperson of the regional bloc, President Joyce Banda of… Read More

Empowering women empowers the world

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   By: Jennifer Fierberg The eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been mired in violence perpetrated by various rebel groups in geo-strategic and ethnic wars for the last two decades. This area of the DRC is rich in mineral wealth that foreign countries seek to use in many electronic and travel innovations. Unfortunately, access to these… Read More

DR Congo rebels face disarmament deadline today

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Congolese government army soldiers stay concealed at an attack position near Munigi, overlooking the front-line, where they are fighting against M23 rebels outside the eastern Congolese city of Goma, July 15, 2013. – Reuters picKINSHASA, Aug 1 — Rebels in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo face a deadline today to lay down their arms, but they have dismissed… Read More

FDLR Press Release: Addressing false statements made on AfroAmerica Network

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By: Jennifer Fierberg The FDLR remain a group that seeks to make itself understood to the region and the world at large. Googling this group will bring up many images and stories about the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda where just under one million Rwandans were savagely murdered. One can not think about Rwanda without remember this horrific event and even… Read More

U.S. tells Rwanda to immediately end support for M23 rebels

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  WASHINGTON | Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:06pm EDT (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday called on Rwanda to end support for M23 rebels in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, saying there was evidence Rwandan military officials were involved. “We call upon Rwanda to immediately end any support for the M23 (and) withdraw military personnel from eastern DRC,” State Department spokeswoman Jen… Read More

All things truly wicked start from innocence

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By: Jennifer Fierberg In an interview on RFI.fr conducted in English and translated to Kiswahili on Monday July 8, 2013 Colonel Patrick Karegeya, former head of intelligence in Rwanda under President Paul Kagame made the following statement (in summary): This senior Rwandan officer refugee in South Africa claims to have information on the recruitment of Laurent Nkunda and Bosco Ntaganda by Paul Kagame and… Read More

Remarks by President Obama and President Kikwete of Tanzania at Joint Press Conference

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The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 01, 2013     State HouseDar es Salaam, Tanzania 5:09 P.M. EAT PRESIDENT KIKWETE:  You Excellency, Barack Obama, President of the United States of America — Mr. President, let me once again welcome you and the U.S. First Lady, and your entire delegation to Tanzania. I thank you,… Read More