Tag Archives : Rwanda

The war in Congo has been going on for a decade and a half. The conflict has many causes, among them the collapse of the kleptocratic regime of Mobutu Sese Seko. A case of an abandoned former Cold War ally of the United States, his fall led to a government that was not able to control vast areas of the country. This brought about the rise in many [...]

The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), installed since November 1999 and a mission that has already been costing $1 billion, reported that its troops did not suspend the current military operations against the Front démocratique pour la liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) in the east. NGOs have requested the [...]