March 10, 2025
By early 2025, France finds itself unceremoniously ejected from over 70% of the African nations where its troops once strutted with impunity…
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France has overstayed, yes—but more damningly, it has miscalculated, blundering its way through coup after coup, betting on the wrong horses time and again.
The pursuit of narrow national interests in the context of an unstable region is not likely to produce sustainable peace
Strip away all the distractions, and the war in eastern DRC boils down to a battle between cows and minerals.
If Africans really want to end this conflict, they must sideline the merchants of death, in whatever form they come
Perhaps the biggest error has been to see DRC as a country of just “people of ndombolo” and nothing else.
Emancipation from stereotypes requires a collective commitment by Africans to see each other as multifaceted, evolving individuals rather than static, preconceived notions
Following the fall of Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, speculation about Rwanda’s alleged plans to annex parts of eastern Congo has intensified.
When it comes to language, everyone is at war front. The words they choose are as loaded as the guns and mortars
Any talk of withdrawing Rwandan troops before neutralising the FDLR threat is not just diplomacy as usual; it is an endorsement of Kinshasa’s thinly-veiled genocidal project
Those of us concerned about the return of great power competition cannot help but notice a pattern in the current shifts that precede the emergence of a multipolar world
France has overstayed, yes—but more damningly, it has miscalculated, blundering its way through coup after coup, betting on the wrong horses time and again.
The pursuit of narrow national interests in the context of an unstable region is not likely to produce sustainable peace
Strip away all the distractions, and the war in eastern DRC boils down to a battle between cows and minerals.
If Africans really want to end this conflict, they must sideline the merchants of death, in whatever form they come
Perhaps the biggest error has been to see DRC as a country of just “people of ndombolo” and nothing else.
Emancipation from stereotypes requires a collective commitment by Africans to see each other as multifaceted, evolving individuals rather than static, preconceived notions
Following the fall of Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, speculation about Rwanda’s alleged plans to annex parts of eastern Congo has intensified.
When it comes to language, everyone is at war front. The words they choose are as loaded as the guns and mortars
Any talk of withdrawing Rwandan troops before neutralising the FDLR threat is not just diplomacy as usual; it is an endorsement of Kinshasa’s thinly-veiled genocidal project
Those of us concerned about the return of great power competition cannot help but notice a pattern in the current shifts that precede the emergence of a multipolar world
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