The mindboggling violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the past ten years has seen more dead bodies than the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur and Iraq combined. At the heart of the conflict are the so-called ‘blood minerals’ or ‘conflict minerals’ whose unregulated trade has been ruling the country, enriching its politicians and [...]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is touted to be a ‘vast, mineral rich and war torn country.’ Some experts do not buy the image. One thing is certain, though. The country is a failure, especially in its attempts at conflict reconstruction. For starters, Congo seems to have the world’s largest franchise of human [...]

The recent spate of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo between rebels and militia are just an example of a prevailing trend in global armed violence. This is in spite of the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, launched in 2006, to reduce the trend and improve human security by 2015. There are [...]