I’ve been avoiding posting about Somalia because I’m kind of lazy. It seems apparent to me that Somalia poses a greater threat to the war on terror than Iraq was ever thought/proven to have been. Why? Because it has no government and its population has been devastated by conflict after conflict. All this makes Somalia [...]
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The Economist article about the conflict in DR Congo begins with a fantastic metaphor for Africa: “When elephants fight, the grass suffers”. If I take anything away from this article, it’ll be that.
But no, I won’t focus this entire post on a clever saying. Rather, I want to focus on what the article says about [...]
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Yesterday, I wrote that nothing happens in a vacuum in Africa. Today I discovered another article which echoed that statement. The situation in DR Congo and Rwanda, which has had massive spill over effects is being called “Africa’s First World War”. UN Secretary General Ban-ki Moon has also warned that the current crisis could engulf [...]
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The situation in DR Congo is still pretty grim, BBC’s Peter Greste reports. The city of Goma is effectively cut off from the rest of the country, with the Rwandan border to the east, Lake Kivu in the south, the north and west roads under the control of Tutsi rebel General Nkunda, and the only [...]
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Many international news headlines are filling up with stories from DR Congo. I am not ashamed to say I know very little, but in an effor to know more I bring you an assessment of what’s going on.
History
The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly known as Zaire, was controlled by Belgium from the 1870’s to the [...]
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