Joseph Kabila
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 16, 2021
A controversial letter written in 2019 by a Norwegian diplomat who is now a leading United Nations envoy in the Middle East, vouching for an Israeli billionaire’s role in the release of a Norwegian-British citizen sentenced to death in…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Diplomats
- Enrico Carisch
- • July 9, 2018
If President Joseph Kabila’s continued violations of his country’s constitutional term limits were not enough of a warning, the first paragraph of the latest report by United Nations experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo sets the record…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, P5 Monitor, Security Council
- Ladan Osman
- • May 19, 2018
In scriptures, poetry, constitutions and leaders’ pledges to protect all members of the state, women are often listed with children or others rendered “vulnerable” by circumstance. The woman citizen is imagined as less adult. Is it possible that vocabularies…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Women
- Enrico Carisch
- • February 11, 2018
An open, informal meeting scheduled for Feb. 12 at the United Nations is meant to unite Security Council members in their efforts to rein in the recalcitrant Congolese president, Joseph Kabila, to allow the long-overdue presidential elections to go…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 22, 2016
The United Nations threw a large and lavish party at its headquarters in New York on Earth Day, the opening day of the signing ceremony for the world’s new climate agreement. About 170 heads of state and government representatives…
- Categories: Climate Change, Secretary-General
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 26, 2012
Less than two decades ago, this is what happened to a huge African country once known as Zaire: Rebels backed by Rwanda’s recently installed, ethnic Tutsi-led government moved out of their strongholds in the eastern flank of the country…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 17, 2012
Important progress in controlling the mining of tin, tantalum and tungsten in the troubled eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo has been achieved, says a report from the Enough Project, a Washington nonprofit group focused on Africa. Yet…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC, Peace and Security
- Roger Nokes
- • November 26, 2011
One of Africa’s largest, poorest and most violent countries will have its second election – presidential and parliamentary – on Nov. 28, after overcoming a dictatorship, a coup and two brutal civil wars. The Democratic Republic of Congo, independent…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights
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