Search Results for: Kris Berwouts
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DRC/ North Kivu: Waiting for the intervention brigade – By Kris Berwouts
M23 withdrew from Goma in the first days of December 2012. In the days and weeks after their retreat, several international initiatives were launched which eventually ... -
Good neighbours? Rwanda’s strategies to defend its interests in Congo – By Kris Berwouts
Central Africa has been shaped by complex regional dynamics, through which local cleavages and national conflicts have spilled over national borders. Each country in the region ... -
“Haze of silence over Rwandan involvement in DRC” – highlights of the Mid-Term Report of the UN Group of Experts – By Kris Berwouts
Bosco’s exit The Mid-Term Report of the sometimes controversial UN Group of Experts focuses on the major events of the conflict in eastern Congo since the ... -
Congo: Pygmy women leader and environmental activist appointed minister in South Kivu – By Kris Berwouts
Cabinet reshuffle On June 5th, Governor Marcellin Chisambo announced a reshuffle of the government of the Congolese province of South Kivu. Three weeks ago, three ministers ... -
Lady in Pink: Victoire Ingabire faces her judges in appeal – By Kris Berwouts
The last time I communicated directly with Victoire Ingabire, on October 13th 2010, she sounded tense and tired. After an absence of more than 16 years, ... -
Bosco Ntaganda: next stop The Hague for The Terminator? – By Kris Berwouts
Killer King On March 18th 2013, Bosco Ntaganda walked into the American embassy in Kigali and requested to be delivered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) ... -
In the shadow of the baobab: Kagame blows cold and hot on a third mandate – By Kris Berwouts
In October 1990, after Fred Rwigyema’s death on the third day the struggle to conquer Rwanda, Paul Kagame took over the command over the Rwandan Patriotic ... -
Waiting for a miracle in Congo: a peace process with many processes and no peace – By Kris Berwouts
Congo is on hold After M23 left Goma in early December, the military situation around the town stagnated. Apart from some repositioning in the hills around ... -
Saturday Night Fever by the lake: on youth and life in Burundi – By Kris Berwouts
I don’t know much about nightlife. Not in Belgium, not in Africa. Least of all do I know about nightlife in Rumonge, Burundi. But last week ... -
Back to Musaga: Post-war Burundi, seen from the hood – By Kris Berwouts
I was invited to visit Musaga by a woman who has lived and worked in Bujumbura for several months – in the Centre Artisanal de Musaga ...