Year: 2011
By Solidarite et Assistance Integrale aux Personnes Demunies , NGO This is my third analysis on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) activities in Democratic Republic of Congo and it is…
Supreme Court Decision Confirming Results of the Presidential Election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Press Statement Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC December 20, 2011…
What would you do if your vote was claimed by a candidate you did not vote for? Observers from the Carter Center, founded by former US President Jimmy Carter, found…
Source: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/12/178853.htm Provisional Results of the Presidential Election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Press Statement Victoria Nuland Department Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC December 14, 2011…
Translated by Jacques Bahati ( Download the French version here) Archdiocese of Kinshasa The Cardinal Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press, 1. Sunday, December 4th, 2011, the CENCO [the National Episcopal Conference…
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson December 6, 2011 2011/2072 STATEMENT BY MARK TONER, DEPUTY SPOKESPERSON Presidential Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The United States…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDec. 10, 2011Source: http://www.cartercenter.orgContact: Baya Kara in Kinshasa +243 81 240 7659 or Deborah Hakes in Atlanta +1 404 420 5124The Carter Center finds the provisional presidential election results…
On November 28th, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) held its second presidential and parliamentary election since the devastating war that began in 1996 and continues to claim lives in…
Congo is one of the most mineral rich places in the world.
This article from the Oct-Dec 2011 edition of Around Africa, by Aniedi Okure, AFJN Executive Director Encouragement for the Church in Africa and a challenge to the Universal Church On…
US finally said publicly what was previously told to Rwandan authorities in private. In her speech entitled “Building a New Nation: Rwanda’s Progress and Potential” delivered at the Kigali Institute…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the second largest nation in Africa after Algeria, is again dominating the headlines for failure to organize free and fair elections. Some are…
This global climate change poses a great spiritual challenge to all Christians, people of all faiths, and all people of good will as it is the consequence of the destruction…
The 3rd Annual Fr. Bill Dyer Lecture went quite well this year! Our speaker Nii Akuetteh’s speech will be published as a paper soon, so even if you couldn’t attend,…
Colonel Emma K. Coulson, a military fellow researcher at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, says: “It benefits the US to partner with the DRC in settling their…
Contested election could lead to widespread violence, warns a coalition of 41 NGOsKinshasa, 28 October 2011 – The national election campaign officially starts today in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
ACHOLI RELIGIOUS LEADERS PEACE INITIATIVE October 24, 2011 Response to the Deployment of U.S. Military Advisors to LRA Affected Regions For us, the Acholi Religious Leaders’ Peace Initiative (ARLPI), President…
ACHOLI RELIGIOUS LEADERS PEACE INITIATIVE Response to the Deployment of U.S. Military Advisors to LRA Affected Regions For us, the Acholi Religious Leaders’ Peace Initiative (ARLPI), President Obama’s October 14th…
Here we go again! After Oklahoma City, Chicago, Paris and Pittsburgh, some faculty members at Sacramento State University are also saying that Rwandan President Paul Kagame is not welcome. President…
by Hervé Cheuzeville, translated from French by Bahati Jacques. Originally published by Echo D’Afrique on September 23, 2011 A major event occurred on September 23rd, 2011. Yet it went largely unnoticed…