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• DRC: When the New York Times Support Rwanda in the Victim Game

  

  North and South Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of CongoColonialism dies hard.And when the story of the hunt continues being written by the hunter,... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Victoire Ingabire: An Unwielding Trophy for RPF’s 25th Anniversary

  

  Victoire Umuhoza Ingabire – Imprisoned leader of FDU-InkingiThe world around in different places is readying to celebrate Christmas in people’s... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Tweet Or Call Ambassador Rice at the UN: You Could Save a Congolese Woman from...

  

  Ambassador Susan Rice -UN PictureAs Rwandan Security Forces return to Eastern Congo.This message is from Kambale Musavuli, Spokesperson of Friends of the... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Paul Kagame Returns to Eastern Congo

  

  Rwandan president Paul Kagame – Time pictureWhen I started writing this piece, before deciding if I should use Paul Kagame or Rwanda in the title, I had... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Kampala Negotiations Between M23 and Kabila Government: A Case of Insanity.

  

  Ugandan President Joweri MuseveniInsanity is defined by doing something over and over again and expecting a different result. Since 1985, Joweri Museveni has... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Ambassador Susan Rice Shielding President Paul Kagame

  

  Ambassador Susan Rice -UN Picture“I find Susan Rice as culprit as Paul Kagame.”At first, I don’t guess he did imagine at the time that the tracking of his peopl... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 SOCIETY

• DRC: Congolese People Mobilise, Mobilise and Mobilise

  

  Congolese protesters on November 28th, 2012 in front of the Rwandan High Commission in London – UK.It is Congolese only chance to succeed against invaders of th... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Rwanda: Better Late Than Never

  

  Peter Erlinder, US International Lawyer who in May 2010 went to Rwanda to defend Victoire Ingabire [in the picture], the now imprisoned politician, chairperson... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Kambale Musavuli Refers to the DRC Crisis as Genocide in Silence

  

  Kambale Musavuli, Spokesperson of the Friends of the Congo“I am not appealing to the government. The appeal is to the American people, the people that I meet... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2012 SOCIETY

• DRC: When Africans Write Their Own History

  

  It is only then that the story of the hunt won’t glorify the hunter.Milton Allimadi, Editor of The Black Star NewsThe article that I reproduce here was written... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2012 SOCIETY

• DRC: Congolese Should Learn from Rwanda 1992

  

  Congolese populations fleeing fighting in Goma area.The Rwandan Patriotic Front [RPF] invaded Rwanda on October 1st 1990. By 1992, Paul Kagame’s rebellion... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Congolese Demand an International Criminal Court for Congo

  

  Frank Le Fever picture – Western taxpayers must wake up and ask questions to their politicians on how they are using their money when it comes to countries... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Chaos in DRC: UN Peacekeepers and the “strategy of the Blue Angel.”

  

  By Patrick MbekoUN peacekeepersOn 14 July 1960, the Security Council passes a resolution in accordance with the wishes of the Congolese government, which asks... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2012 SOCIETY

• UK Stops Aid to Rwanda

  

  Displaced people in North Kivu – Picture UNHCRThis was somehow expected.Following compelling evidence of Rwanda’s involvement in destabilizing Eastern Congo,... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2012 SOCIETY

• The Tragedy of Goma

  

  By Theogene RudasingwaM23 soldiers patrolling Goma on November 26, 2012 – BBC picture.For the last several months Rwandans, Congolese, Africans and... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 SOCIETY

• DRC: US Department of State Spokesperson Ms Nuland in Her Press Briefing on...

  

  Democratic Republic of CongoQUESTION: Congo?MS. NULAND: Please.QUESTION: Given the deteriorating humanitarian situation, could you detail what the diplomacy... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 SOCIETY

• DR Congo: Africans Across the World Must Mobilize

  

  Patrice Emery Lumumba – First only elected prime minister of the CongoBut the revolution will come from inside DR Congo. INGETAIn the last 16 years, DR Congo ha... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 SOCIETY

• Rwanda: Police Beats a Pregnant Woman to Death

  

  More than 60% of the RPF selected Rwandan parliament are women. The irony is that they sit in that institution while not caring much about the welfare of many o... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2000 SOCIETY