The White House budget office has put forward a proposal to cut funding for United Nations peacekeeping missions | Business Insider Africa
As the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues unabated, Andy Storey uncovers the EUâs imperial fingerprints all over the economic and political relations in the region: https://rebelnews.ie/2025/02/22/democratic-republic-of-the-congo-the-ghost-of-roger-casement-is-beating-at-the-door/
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RĂ©publique dĂ©mocratique du Congo : derriĂšre les conflits, lâEurope ?
par Andy Storey : https://www.revue-ballast.fr/republique-democratique-du-congo-derriere-les-conflits-leurope/
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"In early 1964, Jean Ziegler, a young Swiss politician, received a phone call from a man claiming to represent Ernesto Che Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary and minister of industry. Che would be in Geneva in March for a UN conference on trade policy, and some comrades had suggested Jean might be his chauffeur during his stay. Was Ziegler available for the gig?
Today, in his tenth decade of life, Ziegler is Switzerland's most notorious public intellectual. That's because over the course of writing about 30 books, serving for close to three decades in the Swiss parliament, and relentlessly crusading for left-wing causes in his free time, Ziegler has made a career of unsparing criticism of his home country, and its outsize influence on the rest of the world.ââAtossa Araxia Abrahamian
âHere lives the Monsterâs Brainâ: the Man who Exposed Switzerlandâs Dirty Secrets >
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UNICEF reports that over a third of 10,000 rape victims in eastern Congo are children, with sexual violence used as a weapon of war. Aid cuts worsen the crisis. | Business Insider Africa
The Guardian view on Donald Trumpâs Congo deal: mineral riches for protection
"Todayâs coercion is more subtle: a sovereign state cornered, at a weak moment, into accepting colonial-style terms without soldiers or flags. The tools are different â security deals, trade exemptions, private investment. But the logic is familiar. The irony is that this is being pursued voluntarily by a government with few alternatives."
Congolese and Rwandan presidents Felix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame, respectively, the two main leaders in the escalating conflict in eastern Congo, will...
For the past ten years, the United States has been aggressively, though often behind the scenes, attempting to regain control of mining concessions currently held by Chinese firms in thee Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
https://x.com/kambale/status/1910992218451476721
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For the past ten years, the United States has been aggressively, though often behind the scenes, attempting to regain control of mining concessions currently held by Chinese firms in thee Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). According to the DRCâs Ministry of Mines, it is
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