Election Fraud in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. What You Need to Know Mark Leon Goldberg January 17, 2019The Democratic Republic of Congo held elections on December 30th that would mark the country's first peaceful transfer of power since its independence in 1960. The long serving ruler Joseph Kabilla had effectively delayed these elections for years but after mu...
Trump wants to dismantle Wall Street Reform. Here’s what that could mean for…Congo Carol Jean Gallo July 26, 2017The Trump administration’s hostility toward the 2010 Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (aka the Dodd-Frank Act) should come as no surprise, given Trump’s campaign promise to dismantle the entire law. Last month, the Republican-controlled US House ...
The Kasai Region of the Congo Could Become Africa’s Next Hotspot Carol Jean Gallo May 30, 2017Earlier this year, on March 12, two United Nations investigators – American Michael Sharp and Swedish-Chilean Zaida Catalan – went missing in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Just over a month later, a video documenting their murders...
Why You Should Care About More Than Just “Conflict Minerals” in the Congo Carol Jean Gallo November 28, 2016Chances are, the consumer electronic product in which you are reading this blog post can trace some of its key parts to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. And chances are, you already know that. Starting around the early 2000s, a global human rights advo...
Where Risk of a “Rigged” Election is Very Real, Major Unrest Expected Carol Jean Gallo October 25, 2016There is a major crisis looming in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. President Joseph Kabila is facing a constitutionally imposed term limit, yet he clearly wants to stay in power. And unable to fundamentally change the constitution, it seems he is instead...
Why You Need to Pay Attention to Election Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Carol Jean Gallo September 27, 2016The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the most conflict prone countries in central Africa. Between August 1998 and April 2007, a regional war and its aftermath resulted in 5.4 million "excess deaths," according to the International Rescue Commit...
The ICC’s First Hunger-Striking Defendant Poses a Courtroom Conundrum Carol Jean Gallo September 23, 2016At the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, Bosco Ntaganda, who is on trial for his role in war crimes committed in the Ituri district of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2002 and 2003, just spent two weeks on hunger strike. He said he...
Episode 37: Anneke van Woudenberg Mark Leon Goldberg October 20, 2014The famed human rights investigator in Congo
How to Understand A Massacre in DR Congo Carol Jean Gallo June 18, 2014Was it cattle rustling? Politically motivated? Or something else
