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African leaders, meeting in Ethiopia, signed a U.N.-mediated deal on February 24, a “comprehensive framework agreement” intended to bring peace to the the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The previous week at the Brookings Institution U.S. Assistant … Continue reading →

As our group participated in protests in front of the White House and attended a Congressional hearing on the Congo last week, there was a sense that the long-submerged truth about the cause of the violence was beginning to emerge. … Continue reading →

President Obama will decide soon whether he wants to nominate Susan Rice for secretary of state. It is the opinion of our group that not only is Rice unfit to be Secretary of State but because she also has had … Continue reading →

Last week while the media was fixed on Gaza, the Rwanda-backed militia known as M23 took over Goma, the most important city in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This latest surge of violence, which started months … Continue reading →

The M23 rebel group, who U.N. experts say are backed by neighboring Rwanda, on Sunday advanced to within 5 km of Goma, the provincial capital of Congo’s North Kivu province, after pushing back U.N. peacekeepers and government troops, Reuters has … Continue reading →

Congo’s compassionate hero Dr. Denis Mukwege, who has reportedly treated more than 40,000 women in the last 12 years — and performed more than 15,000 operations on women whose genitals and internal organs have been destroyed by sexual violence, has … Continue reading →

Since spring, hundreds of thousands of Congolese have been displaced and rendered homeless by a Rwandan-backed rebel movement in the east of our country. A United Nations Group of Experts report says Rwanda is training, arming and financing rebels that … Continue reading →

In 1998, Bill Clinton apologized on behalf of the American people to the Rwandans for not doing enough to stop the 1994 genocide in their country. Fast forward fourteen years. Bill Clinton, now in his capacity of the head of … Continue reading →

The narrative of Rwanda as a post-genocide economic and social success story, propagated by the country’s president Paul Kagame, is widely accepted in the West. Oft projected by outside influential friends of Rwanda such as Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and … Continue reading →

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed into law this month the Maryland State Procurement and Congo Conflict Minerals Bill, making Maryland the second state to pass such legislation. The measure, passed with the help of the Enough Project, has received little … Continue reading →