Posts Tagged ‘Nkunda’
Congo 101, or "Can't you clap?"
This has got to be the best quote yet to run in anyone’s Congo stories. From Stephanie McCrummen, who has been doing stellar work from this region for the Washington Post for years; she visited a town where a Congolese politician was announcing the Rwandan troops’ arrival to help Congolese soldiers. To a quiet crowd, [...]
So, wait, what exactly is going on in Congo?
I have a lot of thoughts on this, but I’m not there at the moment, alas. Here’s a piece by a colleague of mine, Scott Baldauf, the Christian Science Monitor’s staff writer based in Africa, that analyzes some of the political questions at the center of the recent wave of violence. More soon.
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