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Rally Echoes Congolese Plea for Help
[caption id="attachment_405" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Amnesty International activists urge the US government to support the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC. White House, November 23 (c) Msia Clark"][/caption] Rallying in front…
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What Nkunda Wants
[caption id="attachment_381" align="alignleft" width="108" caption="Alice Eve"][/caption] Laurent Nkunda considers himself a man of diplomacy and politics. Unfortunately, whether we agree or not has become academic. This war criminal has a…
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It's Separation of Church and State, Stupid
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="© Emad Nasry"][/caption] Not persecution of the Church by the State. Unfortunately for Patriarch "Abune" Antonios of the Eritrean Orthodox Church, the government of Eritrea doesn't…
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DRC: Protect Civilians NOW!
[caption id="attachment_97" align="alignleft" width="288" caption="(c) Michael Graham/USHMM, July 2008"][/caption] While African and UN leaders today discuss the recent spike in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, civilians continue…
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Amnesty’s Solution to DRC is…More Guns??
I was asked today about Amnesty International’s increasing calls for the UN Security Council to act to reinforce the peacekeeping force currently in DRC (acronym MONUC…it’s French and I can’t find the…
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Tensions in DRC Remain High
The situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo remains fragile, after rebel forces and local militia clashed north of Goma. More than 250,000 people have been displaced by the…