The events in the Kivu’s passed from a fast-flowing river into a rapid with deep waterfalls and dangerous currents. And it might flood a whole region and cause a lot of damage. Nobody had thought that Kinshasa’s performance on the battle field would have been so predictable and

Les combats entre le M23 et la coalition FARDC-Wazalendo-FDLR-Nyatura et mercenaires ont été intenses ces dernières semaines : le M23 a dû abandonner ses positions près de Kitchanga et Kilolirwe, mais ces derniers les ont arrêtés à Tongo et à Bwiza, où la coalition est tombée dans plusieurs embuscades soigneusement mises

The fighting between the M23 and the FARDC-Wazalendo-FDLR-Nyatura and mercenary coalition has been intense during the past weeks: the M23 had to give up its positions near Kitchanga and Kilolirwe but the latter stopped them in Tongo and in Bwiza where the coalition ran into several neatly set up kill

Yesterday, we published our first findings about our recent visit to the M23 zone in North-Kivu. We handed our microphones to the villagers, refugees, and M23 grunts to check what they think about the ongoing deadlock and the standoff between the M23 and the FARDC-FDLR coalition. Today we’ll focus

Nous revenons tout juste d'un voyage à travers la zone contrôlée par le M23 dans le Nord-Kivu. C`était pour tendre nos micros aux hauts responsables du M23 et faire notre constat sur la situation sociale et militaire. C'est notre troisième visite dans la région. Il

We just returned from a trip through the M23 controlled zone in North-Kivu. The idea was to pass the microphone to the top brass of the M23 leadership and to check the social and military situation on the spot. This was already our third visit to the area. Six weeks

Yesterday a tweed circulated in which Thabo Mbeki, a prominent South-African politician, expressed his views that the Congolese Tutsi community was genuine Congolese and that it was the responsibility of the Congolese government to solve the ongoing war and the ongoing problems as an internal Congolese conflict. Mbeki’s statement

Très récemment, un tweet circulait. Un tweet qui parlait de Thabo Mbeki, un homme éminent,politicien sud-africain qui exprimait son opinion selon laquelle la communauté des Tutsis congolais était authentiquement congolaise. Thabo Mbeki lançait un appel au gouvernement congolais de résoudre la guerre en cours ainsi que les problèmes persistants

Au cours des dernières semaines, nous avons reçu plusieurs appels téléphoniques et messages de la part des chercheurs, journalistes et diplomates, posant des questions sur ce qui se passe actuellement dans les Kivus. Il y a un mois, tout le monde était convaincu qu'un affrontement majeur entre le

During the past couple of weeks, we received several phone calls and messages from researchers, journalists and diplomats with the question about what is currently going on in the Kivu’s. One month ago, everybody was convinced that a bigger clash between the M23 and the FARDC-FDLR-mercenary coalition seemed unavoidable.