AFRICA-CONFLICT: CONGO-RWANDA TENSIONS HEATING UPAnalysis by Moyiga Nduru
The author discusses how the arrest of Congolese rebel General Laurent Nkunda by the Rwandan government established the possibility of a new coalition government taking power in the Congolese province of North Kivu. The author also discusses how relations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of...
Without weapons, conflicts within and between countries will not reach the toll on human lives as we have seen in the recent bloody conflicts in Sierra-Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Rwanda. In view of this, the study intends to contribute to the understanding of the ...
The United Nations and regional countries have called on the two countries to seek a peaceful solution to the ongoing crisis. The presidents of the DRC and Rwanda have expressed willingness to negotiate under the mediation of Angola, but specific dates have not yet been fixed. With fighting bet...
IN EAST-CENTRAL AFRICA, NESTLED BETWEEN TANZANIA, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda is Burundi. From the onset of independence in 1961, Burundi has had a history of internal armed conflicts, ethnic tensions, and civil unrest in the form of crimes against humanity, massive and ...
This includes healthcare access and health outcomes related to humanitarian crises or forced migration due to conflict, as well as primary research on health and medicine in soldiers, veterans, displaced or resident civilians and health workers. We encourage submissions of studies aimed at ...
Rebel activity has been funded by the illicit trade in gold scraped from the earth by men, women and children. The gold from Mitondo and other mines is typically smuggled through Uganda and Rwanda to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), from where it eventually finds its way into the global ma...
Democratic Republic of the Congopeacekeepingstabilisationconflict mineralsconflict economyRwandaResearch on conflict tends to oscillate between two poles: cross-country research using statistical regressions to isolate key variables, and ethnographic research on single countries. I argue that, while the former...
“If you vote (for me), we will provide Beni with a military camp so that Rwanda and Uganda respect us,” he said, in a town where residents did not vote five years ago due to an Ebola epidemic. But electoral expert Oswald Rubasha, coordinator of the NGO Clinique Electorale Congol...
Hideous conflicts in Sierra Leone and Angola have stopped, as has the pointless border clash between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Liberia's warmongering ex-president, Charles Taylor, has been pushed into exile, Congo's rebels and government have signed a peace pact and Sudan's are set, with luck, ...