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Letter to the New U.S. Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region, Senator Russ Feingold
A day after his appointment as the US Special Representative for the African Great Lakes region and…
Advocacy Groups, Congo Experts Applaud Appointment of Feingold as Envoy
WASHINGTON — Nineteen advocacy groups and Congo experts applaud U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for his…
US Special Envoy: No cozy relationships with Africa Great Lakes’ heavy handed regimes
by Jacques Bahati Former Senator from Wisconsin, Russ Feingold, has been appointed US Special Representative for the…
Investor Statement in Support of SEC Rule 1502 on Conflict Minerals
This statement is being issued by various investment groups who represent over $450 billion of assets under…
AFJN Now a Member of The Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA)
This article first appeared in the April-June 2013 Edition of Around Africa “The Public-Private Alliance for Responsible…
We urgently need your voice to help end 17 years of rape, kidnapping, and killings in D.R. Congo
Every day in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo there are news reports of kidnapping for ransom,…
Oxford University: Rwanda President Kagame is controversial, but welcome
Oxford University distanced itself from Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s presence on campus. He was invited by Oxford Business Network for Africa to attend their conference at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School on May 18, 2013. Characterizing President Kagame as a “controversial figure”, the university said that “this invitation and President Kagame’s presence in the Saïd Business School does not imply any endorsement by the School or the University of his views or actions.”
D.R. Congo: Rwandan troops fighting alongside rebels to capture the city of Goma
Despite the international pressure, President Kagame remains defiant. For a month now, North Kivu civil society and…
Answers to those challenging US conflict mineral law, section 1502 of Dodd-Frank
Today, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade held a hearing on the…
US soon to appoint Special Envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes region.
On April 17, US Secretary of State John Kerry, during a hearing on the budget, told congress…
US Senate: Examining Ongoing Conflict in Eastern Congo
On April 16, the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held…
ICC Justice is for Bosco Ntaganda not for the Victims
This article was first published in AFJN’s January-March Newsletter By Jacques Bahati, Policy Analyst On March 18,…
The Fall of D.R.Congo’s War Lord Bosco Caught many by Surprise
After the conviction and sentencing of Thomas Lubanga, calls for the arrest of his collaborator, Bosco Ntaganda…
Bosco Ntaganda in no longer a threat to Congolese citizens
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s war lord, General Bosco Ntaganda, surrended himself to the US Embassy in…
President Obama asks Rwandan President to permanently ending all support to armed groups in the DRC
Below is the White House Press release about the call President Obama made to President Kagame Source: The…
Open letter by 144 NGOs and Civil Society groups to DRC President Kabila
Mr. President, “The bill on the organization, composition, powers and functioning of the High Council of Defense,…
Update on the diplomatic effort regarding the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In April 2012, a number of Congolese soldiers mutinied after the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC)…
International Criminal Court (ICC) Trial Chamber II acquits Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui
Source: http://www.icc-cpi.int Press Release : 18/12/2012 Situation: The Democratic Republic of the Congo Case: The Prosecutor v. Mathieu…
NGOs letter to President Obama: U.S. quiet diplomacy to address Rwandan involvement in eastern D. R. Congo failed
AFJN is one of the signatories of this letter December 10, 2012 President Barack Obama The White…
Congress Hearing on Rwanda’s devastating destabilization of the D.R.Congo
In his testimony, Mr. Steve Hege, Former Coordinator of the United Nations Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) told Congress that: “We found that since the very outset of the M23 rebellion, the Government of Rwanda has provided direct military support to M23, facilitated recruitment, encouraged desertions from the Congolese army, and delivered arms, ammunition, intelligence and political advice to the rebels.”
