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Showing posts with label congo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label congo. Show all posts
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Monday, June 25, 2007
On the road with Kristof
Kristof is a real journalist. He is pursing a non-sexy story. Leana Wen and Will Okun provide their views.
Labels:
congo,
international affairs,
kristof,
leana wen,
will okun
Kristof: Congo no simple answers
"The U.N. World Food Program and a tiny number of aid groups are struggling to keep people alive. The effort is led by groups of heroic Catholic nuns and priests, supported by the aid group Caritas.
This war staggers on in part because the suffering here hasn’t registered on the international conscience, and because it has been allowed to fester and continue. Barack Obama and Sam Brownback are among the few prominent American politicians who have focused on the war here.
There’s no simple solution to the conflict, but we can lean on Rwanda to stop supporting its proxy force in eastern Congo, and also to work harder to repatriate Hutus who have destabilized Congo since they fled here after the genocide in 1994. We can push a peace process. We can support the U.N. peacekeepers. We can help with the reform and training of Congo’s security forces. And a six-hour visit by Condi Rice would help put the crisis on the map".
This war staggers on in part because the suffering here hasn’t registered on the international conscience, and because it has been allowed to fester and continue. Barack Obama and Sam Brownback are among the few prominent American politicians who have focused on the war here.
There’s no simple solution to the conflict, but we can lean on Rwanda to stop supporting its proxy force in eastern Congo, and also to work harder to repatriate Hutus who have destabilized Congo since they fled here after the genocide in 1994. We can push a peace process. We can support the U.N. peacekeepers. We can help with the reform and training of Congo’s security forces. And a six-hour visit by Condi Rice would help put the crisis on the map".
Labels:
congo,
international affairs,
kristof,
UN World Food program
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Kristof: Congo, the other war
I truly believe if there were oil wells in Congo, our government would give a shit.
Labels:
africa,
congo,
kristof,
oil reserves,
society ills
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