Congo-Kinshasa: Fizi to Goma Via Bukavu (then Kinshasa) - Kris Berwouts Goes On the Road in Congo

10 July 2012
opinion

I spent the last twenty days of June in the Congo. Most of that time, I visited people and communities at grass root level. In brief, I went to Fizi - Baraka - Uvira - Bukavu - Kalehe - Minova - Goma. All by road. I ended my trip in Kinshasa, trying to wrap with a more national perspective. What follows is not really an article, nor is it an elaborated analysis. Rather, it is an attempt to summarize my impressions and observations. As such, it is an update of the larger piece I wrote for EurAc at the end of May: "The shadow casted by ballot boxes and weapons in the Great Lakes region".

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