The world’s second-largest and -most populous continent was indirectly affected by NATO’s proxy war on Russia through Ukraine, but it also experienced other forms of dynamism that weren’t connected to that conflict. Most of the world was so focused on following the twists and turns of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine that they largely ignored…
In early November, foreign ministers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen’Apala, and Rwanda, Vicent Biruta met in Luanda, Angola, to find a political solution to a conflict that has been ongoing in eastern DRC for decades. The foreign ministers agreed that the “peace roadmap” agreed to in a July meeting…
Security dilemma, resource, and ethnic reasons in that order are indeed largely responsible for the latest phase of the Congolese Conflict, but the unseen complex relationship between France and Rwanda might actually have played the most important role in catalyzing recent events. The latest phase of the long-running and still-unresolved Congolese Conflict threatens to escalate…
The international community has been so busy obsessing over the Ukrainian Conflict that all but those African members most directly involved in the latest Congolese Conflict pretty much remain unaware of what could end up being the continent’s next major war. The Congo Wars at the turn of the century are infamous for resulting in…
The tiny East African state of Burundi is back in the Western Mainstream Media spotlight after expelling the national head of the World Health Organization (WHO), which comes just days before its presidential elections and amid international criticism that the ruling party’s rallies are dangerously irresponsible in the context of World War C. *** Burundi…
It’s impossible to ethically support Greta’s mission of sustainable energy without first liberating the child slaves in the Congo’s cobalt mines whose daily sacrifices make the envisaged widespread use of electric vehicles possible. *** Greta Thunberg’s mission of supporting sustainable energy in order to avert what she’s convinced herself and her millions of followers is…
