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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak coordinated closely with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in pursuit of mineral, oil, and gas resources…
Words matter in conflict, and few carry more consequences than āterroristā. Overused for decades, applied to insurgents, separatists, and state enemies alike,…
KINSHASA, DRC ā When people first began dying in the dusty hills of Mongbwalu, a gold-mining town in the Democratic Republic of…
During the 2018ā2020 Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), attacks on treatment centres, resistance to contact tracing, and widespread distrust…
Like oil in the twentieth century, lithium is the āwhite goldā of the twenty-first. Demand for this key element is driving economic…
The global race for technological supremacy now runs on cobalt, lithium, rare earths, and coltan ā the minerals that make possible everything from…
In recent years, more people around the world have begun to encounter images of Congoās suffering on their phones: a child emerging…
When the hastily confected Fifa world peace prize was bestowed on Donald Trump last week, the ceasefire in the Thai-Cambodian border dispute was among…
The authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebels, who control large swathes of Congolese territory, are locked in…
Bloomberg News describes Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda for the last quarter century, as āthe Westās favorite autocrat.ā According to Bill Clinton, Kagame is a ābrilliant man,ā…
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