Category: Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Seven Pillars of Military Integration for the DRC-Rwanda Peace Accord

  August 11, 2025

  Critical Minerals, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, U.S. Africa Strategy

  Efforts by the United States and Qatar to end the decades-long conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have accelerated significantly since late June, building on earlier mediation initiatives led by the African Union, the East African Community, and the Luanda and Nairobi processes. The conflict originated in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Read.

• “The Geopolitics of Critical Minerals—Risks, Resilience, and Resource Control”

  June 5, 2025

  Critical Minerals, Democratic Republic of the Congo

  Earlier this week, I attended a very thought-provoking CFR panel on “The Geopolitics of Critical Minerals—Risks, Resilience, and Resource Control” moderated by Heidi Crebo-Rediker, with David Abraham, Gracelin Baskaran, PhD, Helaina Matza and Laura Taylor-Kale, PhD. Capitalizing on the expertise on stage, I asked their opinions on the value-add for U.S. companies as part of the Read.

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  Quick Reflections on DRC/Liberia Election to the UN Security Council

  June 4, 2025

  Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Somalia, U.S. Africa Strategy, United Nations

  If there were an administration in the U.S. next year that valued the UN – and multilateralism more broadly – the election of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia to the UN Security Council would be a strategic windfall. Why? Because all three African non-permanent members of the Security Council next year (DRC, Read.

• PRISM Africa Issue Released

  February 11, 2015

  African Union, AFRICOM, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Nigeria, Security Cooperation

  My former boss, who was cool enough to give me the long leash required to do the TSCTP Study when I was at the Center for Complex Operations, just released PRISM Volume 5, Number 2. This issue is the journal’s first African security-focused one, and includes the following articles: The Tswalu Dialog by Michael Miklaucic On the State of Peace Read.

• Playing chicken with the UN, Uganda threatens to withdraw from peacekeeping operations

  November 2, 2012

  African Union, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Uganda, United Nations

  You could argue that the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, seeks to replace Muammar Qadhafi as the alpha male of Africa and Meles Zenawi as the pan-African mediator. But those aspirations may have to be put on hold. In the UN Group of Experts (UN GoE) report that was leaked last month, Uganda and Rwanda Read.

• Key questions for African-initiated intervention force for eastern DRC

  August 9, 2012

  African Union, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ECOWAS, Kenya, MONUSCO, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, SADC, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, United Nations, Zambia, Zimbabwe

  On August 7th and 8th, International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) heads of state met to discuss the deployment of an international force to fight the M23 rebel movement that has been active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu region since April of this year. While they did not end Read.