African Arguments (London)
A multi-blogging site that covers both contemporary events and develops debates on themes important to the continent.
Website: http://africanarguments.org
July 22
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Congo-Kinshasa: North Kivu - Waiting for the Intervention Brigade [analysis]
M23 withdrew from Goma in the first days of December 2012. In the days and weeks after their retreat, several international initiatives were launched which eventually crystallized... Read more »
July 18
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Congo-Kinshasa: Monusco and Humanitarian Action in the Congo [analysis]
Last week, medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders) published an op-ed in Congolese newspapers, underlining the need... Read more »
July 12
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Rwanda: Govt's Strategies to Defend Its Interests in Congo [analysis]
Central Africa has been shaped by complex regional dynamics, through which local cleavages and national conflicts have spilled over national borders. Each country in the region has... Read more »
July 05
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Africa: UN Experts Examine Eastern Congo Strife [analysis]
The Mid-Term Report of the sometimes controversial UN Group of Experts focuses on the major events of the conflict in eastern Congo since the beginning of the year. Read more »
July 04
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Congo-Kinshasa: Huge Dam Project Faces Challenging Schedule [analysis]
Within slightly more than two years, construction work for a third dam and hydropower station should start at the Inga falls on the Congo river in the Bas-Congo province, about 230... Read more »
June 27
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Congo-Kinshasa: Why Herbst and Mills Are Wrong About Congo's "Invisible State" [analysis]
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a failed state/The Democratic Republic of the Congo is falling apart/The Democratic Republic of the Congo does not exist. Read more »
June 10
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Congo-Kinshasa: Debate on the UN Group of Experts (with a Focus On the DRC) [analysis]
For the motion: Jason K. Stearns, political analyst, director of the Rift Valley Institute's Usalama Project and author of the book, 'Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse... Read more »
June 05
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Congo-Kinshasa: Pygmy Women Leader, Environmental Activist Appointed Minister in South Kivu [analysis]
On June 5th, Governor Marcellin Chisambo announced a reshuffle of the government of the Congolese province of South Kivu. Read more »
June 03
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Congo-Kinshasa: Congo Masquerade - the Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency and Reform Failure [book review]
A new review of Theodore Trefon's African Arguments book 'Congo Masquerade': Read more »
March 20
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Congo-Kinshasa: Bosco Ntaganda - Next Stop the Hague? [analysis]
On March 18th 2013, Bosco Ntaganda walked into the American embassy in Kigali and requested to be delivered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Read more »
March 18
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Rwanda: Kagame Blows Cold and Hot On a Third Term [analysis]
In October 1990, after Fred Rwigyema's death on the third day the struggle to conquer Rwanda, Paul Kagame took over the command over the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and led it to... Read more »
February 19
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Congo-Kinshasa: A Peace Process With Many Processes and No Peace [analysis]
Congo is on hold Read more »
January 09
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Congo-Kinshasa: Will Mounting Evidence of Rwandan Meddling in Eastern Congo Affect Aid? [analysis]
In late November, two Congolese rebel fighters who chose to abandon the group revealed to the BBC the extent of Rwanda's meddling and financial backing. Read more »
December 17, 2012
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Congo-Kinshasa: Goma Conflict Placed on Hold [analysis]
The day Goma fell to the M23 I was on my way there, having planned to take a boat to Eastern Congo's largest city on November 20th from Bukavu. Eventually I had to travel to... Read more »
December 12, 2012
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Congo-Kinshasa: U.S. Africa Scholars Call for Protection of Civilians [analysis]
More than 200 academic specialist scholars of Africa have called on President Obama to take action through the United Nations to protect civilians in the conflict zone of eastern... Read more »
November 30, 2012
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Africa: Avoiding Past Pitfalls in a Future Peace Deal With the M23 [analysis]
The recent fall of Goma has starkly highlighted the shaky foundations of the 'peace architecture' that was built in the wake of the Second Congo War (1998-2002). Briefly, it once... Read more »
November 28, 2012
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Congo-Kinshasa: Kabila in a Catch-22 With M23 [analysis]
As reported last week, the DRC's Eastern city of Goma fell on Tuesday November 20th. The next day M23 took Sake, 25 km to the west. Many people now expected this to be the first... Read more »
November 27, 2012
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Congo-Kinshasa: UK, US Should Help End World's Worst War [analysis]
Africa is covered in epithets, like graffiti. It has been labelled dark, lost, hopeless. But generalisations about Africa are dangerous. The only certainty is its size: it could... Read more »
November 21, 2012
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Congo-Kinshasa: A Tale of War, Rebellion and Dreadful Peace Agreements [analysis]
On Thursday November 15th 'M23' - the rebellion movement which was created earlier this year - launched a major attack on the city of Goma which, after a quieter day on Friday,... Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: The Fall of Goma [analysis]
When the provincial capital of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo fell to rebel forces yesterday, the rapidity of the rebel advance was shocking, but the fait... Read more »
October 11, 2012
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Congo-Kinshasa: Crisis in East Deflects Attention From Need for Reforms From Kinshasa [analysis]
The current crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) North and South Kivu provinces is yet another episode in the epic conflict that has engulfed the region since the... Read more »
September 04, 2012
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Africa: Where Families Seek to Rule [analysis]
Why are there still so many monarchies among the 193 states of the world? 44 countries have heads of state from a single family under a primogeniture system. But it is hard to find... Read more »
August 06, 2012
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Rwanda: Kagame Is a Dictator - But Kinshasa Is Culpable [opinion]
Ken Opalo wrote an interesting response to Richard Dowden's piece, Kagame and Congo: how long can he deny Rwandan involvement in the East? on his own blog http://kenopalo.com/ We... Read more »
August 01, 2012
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Congo-Kinshasa: The Continuing Trouble With the Congo [analysis]
The situation in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo has deteriorated significantly since the end of the transition to peace and democracy in late 2006. Read more »
July 30, 2012
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East Africa: Violence in the Eastern Congo - Rwanda Fights to Maintain Economic Control of the Region [analysis]
An army mutiny that began in the eastern DRC last April has now become extremely serious with the creation of thousands of refugees and much controversy over who is behind the... Read more »
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