Category: Democratic Republic of the Congo

• 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.