How MONUSCO Reports Violence in Eastern DRC: Challenges and Criticisms

New research shows MONUSCO systematically misrepresents violence against Banyamulenge civilians in South Kivu — with major implications for James Swan's leadership...

Erik Prince’s Blackwater in DRC: Drones, Mercenaries, and the War in Minembwe (2026)

Erik Prince's contractors are likely deploying drones in South Kivu. How Blackwater's involvement is escalating the humanitarian crisis in Minembwe...

DRC: Reuters and the Underreporting of Violence in Minembwe, South Kivu

the absence of firsthand accounts often reduces civilians in Minembwe to being viewed primarily through the lens of armed combatants. Despite almost a half-decade of an imposed humanitarian blockade...

Banyamulenge Persecution: Rwanda’s Ambassador Confronts the UN Security Council

Rwanda's UN Ambassador Martin Ngoga broke silence at the UNSC to document Banyamulenge persecution in South Kivu — but was Rwanda truly not silent from 2017–2022?...

Can the DRC-Rwanda Peace Deal Bring Lasting Stability?

The DRC-Rwanda peace deal and the Doha framework with M23 mark historic steps — but without protecting ethnic minorities and addressing Great Lakes regional rivalries, eastern Congo's stability...

HRW’s Report: Understand the Elimination in Slow Motion

On March 17, 2025, the United Kingdom foreign Office Committee of the House of Commons invited two experts to brief the Committee about the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Richard...
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