
Belgium seems determined to mirror France’s ‘exit strategy’ from West Africa

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

Belgium seems determined to mirror France’s ‘exit strategy’ from West Africa

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
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Part of the problem facing Africa is that the agency to articulate the trials and tribulations of Africans has for long been usurped by foreigners. As a principle, everyone should get involved in debates on Africa, of course. However, rather than Read more