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• It’s Not All Quiet in Sudan

  

  By Explo Nani KoffiSudan protestsDemonstrations in Sudan over fuel price hikes have escalated into anti-government riots, throwing the regime into a crisis... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Nita Evele and Rev. Aniedi Okure on DRC Peace

  On November 6th, the two personalities were guests of presenter Tchaka Ssali of the Voice of Africa in Washington to talk about the prospect of sustainable peac... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2013 SOCIETY

• People Don’t Need Talks. They Demand Justice and Peace. The Rest Will Follow.

  

  Congolese women protesting against Rwandan support to M23In the early 90s, the US administration which was at the time under Bill Clinton hailed the like of... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Dying in the Great Lakes: 3rd Edition on November 16th in London

  

  Let’s not be blind anymore. 8 million of dead in the Great Lakes region is too far ENOUGH.This will be as usual at Piccadilly Circus in London from 11:00 to... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Kagame’s Dilemma

  

  Paul Kagame – BBC imageSix to eight million of people died. The majority of the deaths occurred mainly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among the dead, ... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2013 SOCIETY

• What to Make of M23 Defeat to FARDC?

  Kambale Musavuli, spokesperson of Friends of the Congo, Herman Cohen former US ambassador, and Richard Dowden, Director of the Royal African Society speak on th... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 SOCIETY

• I Boycott Facebook Because It Fuels Wars in DRC

  

  Boycott of Facebook starts on October 28th for three days or more (your choice).While Rwanda is waging war in Eastern Congo, on Saturday 26th, 2013... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 SOCIETY

• No More Proof Needed: Kagame Killed Habyarimana

  

  There are criminals who never face justice, not because there is not enough evidence to get them sentenced, but only because the judiciary system supposed to... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Joweri Museveni and His Child Soldiers

  This is what the Ugandan president Joweri Museveni says of child soldiers in 1985; he was still in the bush at the time.“In Africa here, around the age of... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 SOCIETY

• A Too Late Discovery from Rwanda: Their Lies and Duplicity

  

  Former Rwandan President Pasteur BizimunguIn a well written essay on Rwanda recent history Stephen W. Smith explains among many other things how the former... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Western Sahara: the Failed African Decolonization

  

  Western Sahara in red on the map of AfricaColonization or decolonization usually refer to European countries which during a certain number of centuries conquere... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Dying in the Great Lakes: 2nd Edition

  

  Saturday 19/10/13 London rally, activists distributing leaflets about the tragedy of what we have called the Dying in the Great Lakes event.This was on... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2013 SOCIETY

• When Gaddafi Rescued Africa Financially

  

  Muammar GaddafiThe following text is an excerpt from the book – African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions, edited by Firoze Manji and Sokari Ekine. Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2013 SOCIETY

• October 14th – Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza; October 15th -Thomas Sankara

  

  Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, imprisoned Rwandan opposition leader of FDU-Inkingi.Please don’t get me wrong about this note. It is not trying to compare the two... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Kagame Continues Kidnapping Rwandan Youth to Fight in Congo

  

  When you end up in the military as a result of kidnapping or harassment, and not by personal conviction, it is difficult to be motivated to fight. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Nearly Everything in Paul Kagame’s Rwanda is Fake

  

  By Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mberabahizi Kigali City Tower owned by the Rwandan president Paul Kagame was built while Rwandan children are denied education because... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Egypt: Salma El Tarzi at the Tahrir Square Forefront

  

  We are all in together. It is about our common humanity. Did you know that by upgrading your mobile or iPad you are helping to rape a Congolese woman? That... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Indifference Contributes to the Congolese Tragedy

  The actress in the video clip is Western.She looks as an ordinary citizen going about her daily business. She does not seem to notice where she is putting her... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Eastern Congo: An Update from the Kivu Provinces

  

  By BK Kumbi This picture of young Canadians appalled by the crimes should wakes us all the youth of the Great Lakes region – Congolese, Rwandan, Ugandan and... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Don’t Be Blind This Time @Piccadilly Circus London on October 19th, 2013

  There is a massacre going in the Democratic Republic of Congo.For over a century now, the peoples of the Great Lakes region of Africa have been subjected to... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 SOCIETY