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chadian government may fall soon
Idriss Deby, the president of Chad, is in deep trouble. Rebel forces are reported to have entered the capital, Ndjamena, and are marching to the presidential palace “surprisingly easily.” The rebels...
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does anyone have the guts to tell kabila the truth?
So Gen. Nkunda and his men have yet again captured an army base in the East of the DRC, further raising questions of the viability of this vast country as a united nation-state. The news reports did...
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someone should pay for this and pay dearly
The pictures say it all. King Leopold’s ghost never left the vast central African country that is the DRC. In the East, a man by the name of Nkunda is waging a war against the Kinshasa government for...
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the drc: the fire continues to consume lives unabated
In the recent past the Niger coup, the return of the ailing Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua from a hospital in Saudi Arabia and the supposed peace deal between Khartoum and the Darfuris have stolen...
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kagame on the ropes
I respect all that Paul Kagame has done for Rwanda. Under his leadership the country appears to have survived the 1994 catastrophe, emerging as the least corrupt and one of the fastest growing...
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Africa’s Singapore or Uganda waiting to happen?
Yet Rwanda has one huge advantage: the rule of law. No African country has done more to curb corruption. Ministers have been jailed for it. Transparency International, a watchdog, reckons Rwanda is...
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Who is the M23?
Jason Stearns over at Congo Siasa provides a link to a backgrounder worth reading on the rebel group. Also with regard to the M23, Onyango-Obbo of the East African has some advice for Kabila: In the...
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How Eastern Africa can avoid the resource curse
This post originally appeared on the African Development Bank’s Integrating Africa Blog, where yours truly is a regular contributor. Eastern Africa is the new fossil fuel frontier (for more check out...
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Political Developments in the DRC
Podcast: Renowned Africanist historian Crawford Young talks with Jason Stearns about politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It looks like Joseph Kabila may be able to extend his stay in office...
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Historian Daniel Magaziner On Paul Kagame’s Visit to Yale
As some of you may know, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame was recently invited to speak at Yale. As expected, a lot of people expressed their outrage, citing Kagame’s deplorable human rights record. One...
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