Congo Siasa

Believe it or not, despite the headlines of UN failures, there have been some modest gains within the UN on the issue of protection of c...

Just a few months ago, President Kabila's outlook wasn't too bad. He had achieved debt cancellation, freeing up a substantial amoun...

A quick update of the sexual violence statistics. Here are the most recent stats from UNFPA for this year, across the whole Congo. Most of...

I wrote this as a response to Kate's posting below. I agree that, despite mud-slinging from both sides on this debate, we have little em...

I invited Kate Cronin- Furman , of Wronging Rights fame, to chime in on the recent release of the UN Mapping Report on the DRC . Kate is a ...

A strange press statement was issue yesterday in Goma , or rather the combination of signatories was strange: CNDP and PARECO . The two gr...

How many women have been raped in the eastern Congo? We have no exact figure, and we all know how difficult it is to get good data. Rape sur...