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Theo Chocolate Sources Beans From the Congo-and Ben Affleck Is On Board - Seattle Weekly News
Megan Hill
3/25/14
...The
DRC is a tough place to do business. The country has been fraught with
poverty, disease, and violence since 1998, and over 5 million people
have died as a result. The ongoing conflict with terrorist militias has
displaced some 1.3 million people. The eastern DRC, where Affleck's
ECI works and where Theo's cocoa farmers live, is the epicenter.
Caught in Conflict: Ending Recruitment - Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
3/25/14
In 2013, the Harvard Humanitarian
Initiative's Women in War Program, in collaboration with Eastern Congo
Initiative, released its new report, '"We Came Back with Empty Hands":
Understanding the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration of
Children Formerly Associated with Armed Groups in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo.'
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Should the United Nations Wage War to Keep Peace? - National Geographic
James Verini
3/27/14
...But
while the word "war," like "conflict," can apply to Congo, it doesn't
explain much. Nor do the humanitarian terms "complex emergency" or
"destructured conflict," which are used to describe the country. Nor
do any terms, really; speaking with Congolese, you hear of violence,
hunger, and poverty, mingled into sentences with corruption,
incompetence, and foreign meddling, as though cause and effect have
merged-as though it all emerged from the same lava lake of social
collapse. The only metaphors that stick involve disease.
Did cutting access to mineral wealth reduce violence in the DRC? - Washington Post
Laura Seay
3/25/14
...There are several problems with Prendergast's narrative that scholars of the region have identified, including Severine Autesserre's point that most DRC conflicts are driven by local interests over land rights and citizenship, identity, and belonging, Cuvelier, Vlassenroot, and Olin's work showing that there is little empirical evidence or theoretical consensus as to how rebels use resource wealth, and my work arguing that rebels will draw on other sources of revenue in the absence of mineral wealth because the absence of government control allows them to move freely.
Girls, women and the police in the DRC - DFID
Anne-Judith Ndombasi
3/25/14
...In
the last field visit I did with DFID DRC's team in Kasaï Occidental, I
could see the increase in police-public trust - and this is backed up
in the perception data. It has been most noticeable among survivors of
sexual violence who reported a more efficient response from the
national police to complaints as cases are better treated with the
necessary respect, empathy and professionalism required.
Three Things You Don't Know About The Congo - Huffington Post
Hugh Jackman
3/26/14
...Now
I'm going to tell you a couple things you might not know. The Congo
should be one of the wealthiest countries in human history. It is a
country rich with just about every natural resource you can imagine.
There is oil, gold and precious minerals, no doubt, but it also contains
some the richest agricultural lands anywhere. Part of the reason the
wars have been so brutal is because the stakes are high. A vast country,
about half the size of the United States, centrally located in the
content, is also well positioned to be a trading hub.
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Uganda's Anti-Gay Law Complicates U.S. Aid in Rebel Hunt - The New York Times
Helene Cooper
3/24/14
...The
timing of the decision to increase American military help for Mr.
Museveni, even as his government has been locking up journalists,
targeting opposition leaders and criminalizing homosexuality, has
dismayed human rights advocates. On Monday, a number of them questioned
Mr. Obama's support for advancing civil liberties in Africa.
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