A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues experienced during those days of terror.
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The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.
Merely absorbing armed groups into a reserve force does little to address the underlying causes of the eastern DRC crisis.
M23 strategies allow the rebel group to control local governance and to generate revenues from the local economy, including rents from North Kivu’s mineral wealth.
Temporary ceasefire should be seen more broadly as a window to further engage with all parties to find long-term solutions.
High military spending can sap resources meant for education, healthcare and infrastructure.
For the vulnerable millions in eastern DRC, it is not enough that international courts exist.
Rwanda shapes conflict in the region by using the Congolese Tutsi to centre its claims of a continued threat of genocide.
Regional countries are embroiled in a geopolitical struggle over influence and survival.
Protests in Kinshasa are an indictment of the lack of attention to the Congolese crisis.
Consolidating peace efforts across the vast territory has proved difficult for close to three decades. Scholars explain why.
Besides good equipment, M23 is fighting a well-organised conventional war in which it has intimidated the national army.
Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo is used to win a place in government, not to overthrow it. And it keeps working.
Recent clashes put eastern Congo’s M23 into the headlines again, but many other security problems persist in the area as diplomats struggle to tackle the underlying causes.
The Southern African Development Community does not have a remarkable record of military interventions in civil conflicts in the region.
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Visiting Researcher, University of Leeds
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Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology., Stellenbosch University
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Assistant Professor, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University
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Professeure titulaire, École de Santé Publique-Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université de Montréal