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LATEST ARTICLES ( 102 )

• Memo to Obama: There's a Country Called Kenya!

  

  (PHOTO: From left to right: Senegal's First Lady Marieme Faye, U.S. President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Senegal's President Macky Sall at the... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 SOCIETY

• The Cannibal Planetarchy: The Dictatorship of Opacity

  

  (PHOTO: "People walk past a banner supporting Edward Snowden in Hong Kong's business district. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP"--Photo caption from The... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 SOCIETY

• Meet Dr. Benjamin Kabwe, Freelance Digital Archivist of Kinshasa Roadworks

  

  (PHOTO 1: Dr. Benjamin Kabwe takes photos of workers painting pedestrian crosswalk marks on the newly-Chinese-repaired Oshwe Avenue in Matonge, Kinshasa. Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 SOCIETY

• DRC: Re-enter Monsieur l'Abbé Apollinaire Malumalu

  

  (PHOTO: Monsieur l'Abbé Apollinaire Malumalu, 52, at an impromptu presser in Kinshasa, June 4, 2013) *** The designation earlier last week by the "religiou... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 SOCIETY

• The DRC Between Two Powerful American Women & a Hard Place

  

  PHOTO: "Samantha Power, left, and Susan E. Rice (Mark Von Holden, left, and  Evaristo  Sa/Getty Images)" [Washington Post photo legend] *** I just rea... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2013 SOCIETY

• A Cautionary Tale: Mobbed for Snapping Congolese Women

  

  (PHOTOS 1 2: An unidentified photographer puts up a brave face and gives a thumbs up as she's being mobbed and jeered for snapping Congolese female hawkers... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 SOCIETY

• 1) UN Peacekeepers Day 2013: 149 Blue Helmets Killed in the DRC Since 1999; &...

  

  1) UN Peacekeepers Day 2013: 149 blue helmets killed in the DRC since 1999 "MONUSCO peacekeepers on patrol.UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 SOCIETY

• No Comment: Circling the Wagons Around UHURU KENYATTA & WILLIAM RUTO (African...

  

  (PHOTO 1: AU Chairman Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn) (PHOTO 2: ICC Chief Prosecutor Africa's villain of the century Fatou Bensouda) ***... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 SOCIETY

• After Stifling Domestic Opposition and Destabilizing the DRC, the Kagame Regime...

  

  (PHOTO: President Paul Kagame, flanked by  UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and World Bank president Dr. Jim Yong Kim, at Kigali Village Urugwiro, Thursday,... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 SOCIETY

• A Prison Photo That Angers the DRC Government

  

  (This photo, taken on May 1 at Kinshasa Makala Prison and since gone viral on Congolese blogosphere, has allegedly angered the DRC government) *** This photo... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Two Damning Reports on the DRC: The Dance with Death & The Mystery of the Elusiv...

  

  (PHOTO: "Women fleeing to Goma, 2008"; Photo by Walter Astrada; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas) ***Among the bevy of damning reports and... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 SOCIETY

• M23 Opts for Shoot-to-kill Policy for Its Deserters

  

  PHOTO 1: "A joint team (Malawi, Tanzania and South Africa) arrives in Goma on a reconnaissance mission ahead of the deployment of the Intervention Brigade... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Dr. Cécile Kyenge Kashetu, First Black Italian Cabinet Minister, is...

  

  (PHOTO: Dr. Cécile Kyenge Kashetu, 49, new Italian minister for Integration) *** Enrico Letta, the new Italian leftist prime minister, has just appointed the... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 SOCIETY

• Earl W. Gast, USAID Deputy Administrator for Africa, Talks Governance with...

  

  (PHOTO: CLOCKWISE: Lea Ndombasi, youth organizer; Yangu Kiakwama, opposition political activist; an unidentified civil society actor; me; USAID/DRC Acting... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 SOCIETY

• Rwanda is Reinforcing M23 for Final Assault on Goma

  

  (PHOTO: Jules Hakizimwami, right, Speaker of the North-Kivu Provincial Assembly, with Governor Julien Paluku) *** Jules Hakizimwami, Speaker of the North-Kivu... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 SOCIETY

• A Specimen of the New Breed of Ugly Americans: Howard G. Buffet

  

  (PHOTO 1: Howard G. Buffet, billionaire philanthropist and self-appointed stakeholder in the African Great Lakes Region) (PHOTO 2: Erstwhile CIA operative and U... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 SOCIETY

• M23 Chief Bertrand Bisimwa: Apocalypse Now

  

  (PHOTO: Bertrand Bisimwa at a press briefing at Bunagana yesterday) *** With the full deployment by the end of this month of the MONUSCO Intervention Brigade,... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 SOCIETY

• A Very Black Maundy Thursday for Kinshasa Football Club DCMP

  

  (PHOTO: Mangled Toyota RAV-4 in which three DCMP soccer players died on Maundy Thursday) *** There was not so much as a peep on Kinshasa streets in terms of... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Congo Chaos Theory: The Rwandan Butterfly Effect

  

  (PHOTO 1: Rogue Rwandan warlord Bosco Ntaganda at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Tuesday, March 26, 2013) (PHOTO 2: Presidents Denis Sassou... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Africa's Madman of the Year 2013: Raila Amollo Odinga

  

  (PHOTO 1: March 18, 2013, Changamwe constituency, Kenya. "Residents [...] acknowledged greetings from Prime Minister Raila Odinga (atop his car) before he... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 SOCIETY