Africa:-International Mining Company Under Fire Over Mines
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa By: Ricard Lee The multinational mining company, Eurasian Natural Resources Corp (ENRC), is back in the news – and the firing line – once again due to its controversial investments in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A Congolese miner checks his load of mineral chips he got inside More...
Central African Republic: Another Western Backed Coup d’Etat
By: Alexander Mezyaev On 24 March, a coup d’état took place in the Central African Republic (CAR). Seleka (1), a coalition of rebel groups, seized the country’s capital Bangui and President François More...
Food aid pillaged in Central African Republic: UN
Hundreds of tonnes of food aid have been stolen from warehouses across the restive Central African Republic, the UN’s World Food Programme lamented Tuesday. A man holds a Central African flag during More...
AFRICA: The role of Britain and The USA in DR-Congo
OPINIONS & ANALYSIS By: Antoine Roger What is happening in eastern DR Congo is not a civil war, but continuation of a 16-year aggression by the country’s two neighbours, financed and directed by the More...
Human rights abuses committed by Congo rebels
Rebels in eastern DRC who allegedly are receiving support from neighbouring Rwanda have committed widespread war crimes including dozens of rapes and killings, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Tuesday. M23 More...
ICC sentences Congolese warlord to 14 years for child soldiers
The International Criminal Court sentenced Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga to 14 years in jail for using child soldiers in his rebel army. Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo sits in the ICC courtroom More...
When protectors turn predators
By: Margot Wallström Army reforms needed to counter sexual violence in the Congo. “A dead rat is worth more than the body of a woman.” Those were the words of one distraught young woman whom I met in More...
Central African Republic finance minister sacked after “coup plot”
Central African Republic President Francois Bozize sacked former ally Finance Minister Sylvain Ndoutingai, state radio reported on Saturday, two months after he was accused by the government of plotting a More...
Angola’s businesses beat most of Europe to 4G mobile services
By: Egon Cossou Editor, Africa Business Report (BBC) It is 10 years since the end of Angola’s civil war. The country has made enormous strides in rebuilding its economy, which is expected to grow by More...