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Major population transfers are taking place from M23 areas in Eastern Congo to Rwanda. Some call it ethnic cleansing

By Emmet Livingstone in Kinshasa and Mushaga Akili ( a pseudonum) in Goma Transfers of refugees and other individuals from areas controlled by the M23...

The rapes, the murders, the torture—all these horrors are engraved on our hearts. Everything was destroyed in Kailek

Blast from the past! The violence in Darfur is deja vu. In June 2004 I travelled in Darfur during the war and wrote this feature...

Some justice after 25 years in Congo: Wipe the slate clean really meant wipe everything out

A court case has strated againgst the motrious Congolese warlard Roger Lumbala. He is charged with complicity in crimes against humanity committed by his...

Widespread fraud and election violence, repression and military politics have changed Tanzania forever

On the morning of election day, the streets of Dar es Salaam, the economic capital, were mostly empty. Then the violence broke. “It was...

The largest-ever Dutch human smuggling trial: “We see Walid as one of the most prolific human traffickers on the central Mediterranean route”

Eritrean Amanuel Walid is tried in The Netherlands for leading an international criminal network that detained, tortured, raped and extorted Eritrean refugees in Libya. By Margherita...

Pay up or be executed

By Ahmed Gouja, Philip Kleinfeld, and a journalist in Tawila El Fasher survivors speak of kidnappings and mass killings. Ibrahim had returned to El Fasher to...

El Fashar, an atrocity foretold

By Ahmed Gouja from Nyala Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale. This analysis is...

Sudan’s displaced are in homes, not just camps – and aid keeps missing them

“We must stop searching for a crisis that fits existing models and start designing responses that fit the crisis we actually have.” For the past...

The M23 takeover, part 3: Land grabs and assassinations in DR Congo’s Rutshuru

“They tell us they are hunting the FDLR, but it is peasant farmers who are dying.” It is the place where the insurgency began nearly...
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