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Election Fraud in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. What You Need to Know

The 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...

Trump wants to dismantle Wall Street Reform. Here’s what that could mean for…Congo

The 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 of Representatives gutted the...

The Kasai Region of the Congo Could Become Africa’s Next Hotspot

Earlier 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

Chances 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...

Where Risk of a “Rigged” Election is Very Real, Major Unrest Expected

There 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...

Why You Need to Pay Attention to Election Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The 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 Committee. Several...

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