Guest Post: The fragile promise of peace in Colombia
This is a guest post by Katherine McKeon, a UW communications major who recently returned to Seattle after working this summer for Reuters in Bogota, Colombia. The promise of peace talks between the...
View ArticleHoward Buffett Foundation attacks UN to shift blame from Rwanda
Howard G. Buffett is pushing the international community to fully restore aid to Rwanda. When a UN Group of Experts (GoE) report found that Rwanda was supporting rebels fighting a deadly conflict in...
View ArticleUS tells Rwanda to stop backing Congo rebels … again
Given the drumbeat of bad news and eruptions of violence out of eastern Congo, it's easy to think whatever is happening there is just more of the same - the same, chronic fights between DR Congo's...
View ArticleDR Congo: M23 rebels lay down guns, army targets FDLR
M23 rebels on patrol. The M23 rebel group that has led a twenty-month insurgency in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo waved the white flag today. An announcement Tuesday morning that the...
View ArticleDeaths of surrendered Congolese combatants “criminal,” says HRW
More than 100 people have starved to death at a Congolese military camp, and Human Rights Watch says that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is responsible. The group charges that the country has...
View ArticleColombia and FARC reach deal to end 52-year civil war
The Colombian government and the leftist FARC rebel group have finally reached a peace deal, the two sides announced on Wednesday, ending four years of negotiations and more than 50 years of conflict....
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