Les ministres de la Défense des pays d'Afrique de l'Est qui participent à la force est-africaine devraient se réunir à Goma, ce Mercredi, le 19 Avril 2023. Une réunion qui vient d`être annulée à la dernière minute. Le Rwanda, aussi membre de l`EAC, n’

Tomorrow the defense ministers of the East-African countries who participate in the East-African force will meet in Goma.  But Rwanda, another member of the EAC, is not invited to this party that was announced with a lot of noise by the new minister of defense of the DRC, Jean-Pierre Bemba.

I just read Michela Wrong’s article “Kagame’s revenge” in Foreign Affairs. I could have saved myself the extra work: her analysis is very cliché and she is already repeating herself for many years. It also shows clearly that she stopped investigating facts in the field more than ten

Comme toujours, il est difficile de juger ce qui se passe exactement dans la région du Nord-Kivu. Beaucoup de gens qui veulent suivre les problèmes en cours comptent sur les plateformes de médias sociaux telles que Twitter où plusieurs grenouilles pros et contre croassent aussi fort que possible pour faire

As always it is difficult to judge what exactly is going on in the Kivu’s. A lot of people who want to follow up on the ongoing problems rely on social media platforms such as Twitters where several pro- and contra frogs are croaking as loud as possible to

I went to a ceremony this morning in what used to be the Camp Kigali barracks in Kigali. On the 7th of April 1994 ten Belgian paratroopers were savagely killed there by extremist soldiers of the ‘Forces Armee Rwandaises” (FAR). The night before president Juvenal Habyarimana and another couple of

Analyser les problèmes en cours dans le Kivu congolais n'est pas une tâche facile: la situation devient de plus en plus brumeuse. Les différents protagonistes s'accusent sur les médias sociaux avec des arguments parfois ridicules et la situation est devenue si complexe que la plupart des

To analyze the ongoing problems in the Congolese Kivu’s is not an easy task: the situation is getting more and more foggy by the day, the different protagonists are accusing each other on the social media with sometimes ridiculous arguments, the situation has become so complex that most of

The chaos in and around Goma is growing by the day: the M23 rebels are surrounding the town and the Congolese army and its proxy FDLR-, mercenary-, and Mayi Mayi forces prove to be no match for them. Several peace efforts failed for the main reason that the Congolese government