- Wazalendo, War Economy, and State Betrayal: The Invisible Hand of the Army in Congo’s Endless Conflict
By Alex Mvuka In January 2019, the Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi declared his commitment to fighting corruption, restoring the rule of law, and eradicating the problem of insecurity in eastern Congo. In 2020, he launched the “state of siege” in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri. This program aimedContinue Reading - The Hamitic hypothesis and the ‘Bantu race’ myth: drivers of genocide ideology and constructions of current ethnic hatred in the Great Lakes of Africa
By Alex Mvuka Abstract This paper explores the rationale behind the ‘Hamitic/Bantu race’ hypothesis proposed by European anthropologists and its role in influencing racial divisions in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It will evaluate to what extent these ideas played a role in reconstructing Tutsi and Hutu ethnic identitiesContinue Reading - Why does Congolese civil society take ownership of the consequences of ethnic hatred but not the causes?
By Alex Mvuka A few weeks before the capture of Goma by the M23, Congolese civil society and the general population supported barbaric acts of lynching perpetrated against people of Tutsi appearance. This same civil society was behind the idea of killing all Tutsi in North Kivu and attacking theContinue Reading - Forgotten Victims: The Fate of Banyamulenge Girls During the 1996 Massacres in Baraka
By Alex Mvuka This article examines the horrific events that occurred in Baraka and the disappearances of Banyamulenge girls in 1996. Drawing on firsthand accounts, including the testimony of a survivor who was only five years old at the time, it sheds light on this tragic chapter in Congolese history.Continue Reading - What the timing of the leak of the UN Group of Experts’ report on DRC to the media tells us about the Group’s political motive
By Bojana Coulibaly We have witnessed an eruption of relentless commentaries and articles as well as social media posts on the final 2025 UN Group of Experts’ report this past week, occurring in the immediate aftermath of the signing of a peace deal between DRC and Rwanda in Washington. TheContinue Reading - Amnesty International in DRC: Unreliable reporting and inflaming of hate
By Bojana Coulibaly Since the resurgence of the DRC conflict, Amnesty International has been an unreliable source of information, breaching research ethics and promoting hate ideology. The latest instance is the fabrication of crimes attributed to the movement M23 in a report published on May 27, 2025 titled “RDC. LeContinue Reading - MONUSCO’s media Radio Okapi’s unethical journalism violates the neutrality of the UN peacekeeping mission
By Bojana Coulibaly Source photo: Monusco On March 29th, the UN news platform Radio Okapi, published a news update titled “La population de Goma ‘sous la brutalité’ du M23 appelle à l’intervention de la communauté internationale (témoignages)” [Goma residents ‘under the brutality’ of M23 calls for the intervention of theContinue Reading - Can the Group of Experts midterm report be a reliable source of information on the DRC crisis?
By Bojana Coulibaly The UN Group of Experts (GoE) aims to provide information on the conflict in DRC based on field data collected during a given reporting period. They subsequently provide an expert analysis on the context directed to an audience comprised of the UN personnel, diplomats, scholars, the mediaContinue Reading - The responsibility of the international community in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and in the targeted killings of Congolese Tutsi in DRC today
By Bojana Coulibaly The international community has played a crucial role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It continues to play a significant role in genocide denial, the last stage of genocide, and in the targeted killings and persecution of members of the Tutsi minority in theContinue Reading - Afrikarabia, ou le récit occidental des faillites du Congo
Par Jessica Mwiza Le média suivi tant par de simples citoyens que par des chercheurs et journalistes, exonère sans cesse les officiels de la RDC ainsi que les principaux bénéficiaires des richesses spoliées de son sous-sol. Les préoccupations d’Afrikarabia et de son fondateur et principal contributeur Christophe Rigaud ont toujoursContinue Reading
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