Congo Siasa

Nicholas Kristof just spent a week in the eastern Congo and has begun publishing a series of Op-Eds in The New York Times. This first one i...

A friend recently sent me information regarding the ownership of cattle in the area of Masisi occupied by former CNDP rebels. He said he h...

Life is complex. In response to harsh criticism for supporting abusive Congolese army units last year, the UN peacekeeping mission was to...

The Center on International Cooperation at New York University just published a concept paper I wrote with Steve Hege on mining in the Kivus...

Lubumbashi has always been a world unto itself, a weird microcosm of Congolese politics. The city is one of the wealthiest in the country, d...

There was quite a bit of commotion in the Kivus this past week. Abbe Malu Malu arrived in Goma to chair a Comite national de suivi (follow-u...

It appears that the FDLR are beginning to re-organize after the end of Kimia II operations. For several days now, meeting have been held i...