June 19

• Central Africa: U.S Appoints New Special Envoy for Great Lakes

  After months of rumours, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has finally appointed former Senator Russ Feingold as the new US Special Envoy for the Great Lakes and the... Read more »

May 23

• Congo-Kinshasa: Dangers of Dodd-Frank Act for DRC [analysis]

  A week ago I returned from a working trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where I participated in a conference about the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC... Read more »

May 21

• Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Education Coalition Graduates to Regional Role [analysis]

  As everyone knows, the education system in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is beset with enormous challenges - challenges that often seem insurmountable. But only a few... Read more »

May 08

• Congo-Kinshasa: Internet and Mobile Transforming DRC Media [analysis]

  In December 2012, Journalist in Danger, a Congolese NGO that defends media freedom, issued its latest annual report. As well as describing many attacks on journalists over the... Read more »

May 13

• Congo-Kinshasa: International Mining Company Under Fire Over Mines

  The multinational mining company, Eurasian Natural Resources Corp (ENRC), is back in the news - and the firing line - once again due to its controversial investments in the... Read more »

April 24

• Congo-Kinshasa: Time for U.S to Change Its Congo Policy [analysis]

  Father Ferdinand Muhigirwa appeared before the US Senate Foreign Relations sub-committee on African Affairs last week to urge America to take advantage of the current window of... Read more »

March 26

• Africa: Big Step for Justice, Small Step for Peace [analysis]

  The International Criminal Court has taken into custody war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda, who was wanted by the ICC on seven counts of war crimes and three counts of crimes... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: Big Step for Justice, Small Step for Peace in DRC [analysis]

  The International Criminal Court has taken into custody war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda, who was wanted by the ICC on seven counts of war crimes and three counts of crimes... Read more »

February 26

• Southern Africa: DRC Peace Deal Is Just the Start [analysis]

  A group of prominent Congolese and international NGOs have called on countries in the Great Lakes region, along with their international partners, to ensure that the Peace,... Read more »

February 05

• Congo-Kinshasa: Human Rights Abuses Continue to Scar DRC [analysis]

  Human Rights Watch has released its World Report for 2013, which contains a chapter cataloguing a year of violence and abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Read more »

January 29

• Congo-Kinshasa: Life of Poverty for Congolese Miners [analysis]

  There is no refuge from the blistering heat at this artisanal gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Any trees that might have provided shade have been consumed by... Read more »

December 05, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: Sexual Violence Not Just a Weapon of War in DRC [analysis]

  For years, the conflict-wracked east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been cursed by sexual violence on a scarcely imaginable scale, which has seen it labelled as the... Read more »

December 03, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: Fight for Justice Goes On Despite M23 [analysis]

  I was in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo last week when the M23 militia entered Goma. Since then, there have been reports of women and children being abducted by the... Read more »

November 27, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: Conflict Minerals Not Fueling M23 Rebellion [analysis]

  The capture of Goma by M23 rebel forces is the latest demonstration of the ineffectiveness of the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its army (the FARDC).... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: Governance Reforms Key to Lasting DRC Peace [analysis]

  As usual, a 'peace plan' for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been negotiated by regional leaders behind closed doors - without any real input from Congolese... Read more »

November 22, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: NGOs Call for African Union-UN Mediator [analysis]

  The conflict in eastern Congo between the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group is crippling the Great Lakes Region, and is... Read more »

October 28, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: Attempted Murder of DRC Healer and Hero

  There has been an international outcry at last week's attempted assassination of Dr Denis Mukwege at his home in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A world-renowned... Read more »

October 01, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: Battle Over DRC's Electoral Commission [analysis]

  Let's start with the good news - the lower chamber of the DRC parliament has finally begun discussing a bill to reform the national electoral commission (CENI), which played such a... Read more »

September 26, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Mobile Gender Courts Nominated for Award

  After three years and hundreds of cases, the mobile gender court project in South Kivu Province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been shortlisted for a... Read more »

September 18, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: Fighting Over Education for Peace [opinion]

  When two priorities are not quite in sync - one championed by an international donor agency and the other by local recipient groups - which priority carries the day? That was the... Read more »

September 19, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: Stop Persecution of DRC Bar Association Head [press release]

  The rule of law has long been under threat in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and recently it has suffered another serious blow as the National Director of Public... Read more »

September 10, 2012

• Southern Africa: Neutral Force Is a Dangerous Distraction [analysis]

  Our regional leaders have got two things right about the crisis gripping the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). One: that it needs their urgent attention. Two: the leaders... Read more »

August 07, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: Time to Review Congo's Mining Code [analysis]

  It is a decade since the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) drew up its mining code - and there is no doubt that a review - and subsequent rewriting - of the code is long overdue... Read more »

July 26, 2012

• Africa: DRC Fighting Due to Failed Security Sector Reform [analysis]

  With fighting raging again in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), civil society organisations have called on the government to completely - and urgently - overhaul the... Read more »

July 19, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: Spotlight On the London Stock Exchange [analysis]

  In a damning report, the business and human rights organisation Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) catalogues the inadequacies of the London Stock Exchange’s... Read more »