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DR Congo: System Vulnerability of the Kivu Security Tracker

GEC CRG — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:01:29 +0000

(Goma, November 9, 2023) – Partner organizations involved in the Kivu Security Tracker (KST) were recently made aware of a security vulnerability in its database. The KST tracks and publicly reports...

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UDPS, yoka base ! The difficult quest to build a grassroots-led party

GEC CRG — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:42:21 +0000

The following is a translation from the original French text of the press release for these reports, originally issued November 30, 2022. Political parties play a major role in building...

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All that glitters: The struggle over Congolese gold

CRG — Mon, 15 May 2023 13:58:17 +0000

On May 1st, military authorities in Bukavu proudly presented the results of a sting operation. Laid out on a plastic table in front of the officials were half a dozen...

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Le déploiement du contingent angolais relèvera-t-il le défi du désarmement du M23 ?

Lebon Kasamira — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:36:31 +0000

Le 17 mars, le parlement angolais a autorisé le déploiement d’un contingent de 500 militaires au Nord-Kivu, province en proie à de violents conflits opposant les Forces armées de la...

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A Majority of Congolese Reject East African Community Regional Force

GEC CRG — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 04:01:23 +0000

The regional force of the East African Community (EAC) has been under pressure for several weeks from civil society in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which considers it...

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Congo Siasa: Discrimination and the M23 rebellion

Jason Stearns — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:40:07 +0000

Since the M23 rebellion re-emerged in November 2021, there has been a lot of noise––to call it a discussion would be to exaggerate its nuance and sophistication ––about discrimination against...

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Kabila, Tshisekedi, and the War of Appearances

Joshua Walker — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:18:31 +0000

Before Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi assumed power, in January 2019, expectations for what, concretely, he could achieve while in office—in light of the power imbalance with Joseph Kabila’s Front commun...

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GoE report – why knowing the facts isn’t enough

GEC CRG — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:44:35 +0000

In early August, the UN Group of Experts (GoE) on DRC, a group of independent investigators tasked with monitoring the implementation of the sanctions regime for the Security Council, submitted...

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Elections in the Tshisekedi Era: A Bad Start?

GEC CRG — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:55:51 +0000

With 14 months to go before the next elections, the electoral calendar is still pending. In the meantime, distrust of the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission(Ceni) remains And...

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The Catholic Church in the DRC: A Neutral Arbiter or at the Heart of Protest?

CRG — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 09:59:35 +0000

The Catholic Church is a critical player in Congolese politics. From the National Sovereign Conference of 1992 to the protests around the electoral process between 2015 and 2018, to the...

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