Although the picture is grim, there has recently been some good news: a peace agreement has been signed in Angola; the governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda have signed a peace agreement; talks have resumed between the government and the rebels in Sudan. Sadly...
Kenyatta is hosting the high-level meeting in his capacity as the co-convenor of the peace process and chairperson of the EAC bloc which comprises Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan and DRC. The latest meeting comes as heavy fighting revives decades-old animosities between D...
The DRC government accuses Rwanda of supporting M23 rebels, which was rejected by Rwandan authorities. 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 n...
The role of inclusive and exclusive victim consciousness in predicting intergroup attitudes: findings from Rwanda, Burundi, and DRC. Polit. Psychol. 36, 489–506 (2015). Article Google Scholar Vollhardt, J. The Social Psychology Of Collective Victimhood (Oxford Univ. Press, 2020). Demoulin, S...
The United Nations estimates that between $300 million and $600 million in gold is smuggled out of the DRC each year. While some Belgian companies are involved in the DRC’s gold industry, much of the smuggled gold ends up in the UAE, which imported $37 billion in gold in 2020, making...
inquiry, Nokia has reason to believe that certain of the Conflict Minerals1 necessary to the functionality or production of our products may have originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (the "Covered Countries") and may not have come from recycled or scrap ...
European Partnership for Responsible Minerals (EPRM) The EPRM is a multi-stakeholder partnership created in May of 2016 under the EU through cooperation between the private sector, civil society, and governments to enhance the transparency of supply chains dealing with conflict minerals and ...
While most of the country has returned to relative stability after two major wars in the 1990s and 2000s, militias and rebel groups roam much of eastern DRC, which borders Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. For almost 30 years, the cities of Bunia, Bukavu, Butembo, Beni, Oicha and Goma ...
Associations between exposures to occupation-related events, depression and intimate partner violence among women in the occupied Palestinian Territories Global Public Health (2020), 10.1080/17441692.2020.1849349 Published online Google Scholar Hagan et al., 2016 M.J. Hagan, M.J. Sulik, A.F. Lieber...
inquiry, Nokia has reason to believe that certain of the Conflict Minerals1 necessary to the functionality or production of our products may have originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (the "Covered Countries") and may not have come from recycled or scrap ...