DRC: What will stop the fighting?
JOHANNESBURG, 10 November 2008 (IRIN) - A pledge by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to complement UN peacekeeping forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with SADC soldiers does not take account of the regional body's limited military capacity, a military analyst told IRIN.
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GREAT LAKES: Trying not to repeat history
JOHANNESBURG, 7 November 2008 (IRIN) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is on the brink of slipping back into the kind of devastating international war that raged from 1998 to 2003, according to one of the architects of the Great Lakes peace accords.
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RWANDA: Ex-militia struggle with civilian life
KIGALI, 28 October 2008 (IRIN) - After spending 10 years as a rebel in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo borderlands, Pierre Ndikumana has given up fighting the Rwandan government and is trying civilian life back home.
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DRC-RWANDA: Fighting flares as civilians run in eastern Congo
BUNIA/KIGALI, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Serious fighting has broken out in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province and in the neighbouring district of Ituri, with thousands of civilians displaced, and others cut off, amid claims that foreign troops had deployed in parts of the east.
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RWANDA: Rains wreak havoc
KIGALI, 6 October 2008 (IRIN) - Torrential rains have caused extensive flooding, destroying homes and crops in Rwanda's western and northern regions, according to officials.
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RWANDA: Turning ex-child soldiers into able citizens
KIGALI, 30 September 2008 (IRIN) - Evariste Nzamurambaho, recruited into the Forces démocratiques pour la libération du Rwanda militia at the age of 12, is still haunted by the experience.
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RWANDA: Carbon offset firm to help reverse deforestation
KIGALI, 17 September 2008 (IRIN) - A Canadian carbon offset development company plans to invest US$17m on reforestation projects in Rwanda over the next 20 years, one of its senior officials said.
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RWANDA: Soil erosion affecting farm productivity
GICUMBI, 5 September 2008 (IRIN) - Over the years local residents of Rebero in Gicumbi District north of the Rwandan capital of Kigali, watched as their soil was washed away by rain.
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RWANDA: Vulnerable children living on the margins
BYUMBA, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - Jean-Lambert Rukeratabaro has turned 16, but is still only in the fourth year of primary school in Byumba, north of the capital, Kigali.
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RWANDA: Sustainable peace key to post-genocide reconciliation
KIGALI, 26 August 2008 (IRIN) - Almost a decade and a half since Rwanda's genocide, reconciliation efforts are using traditional cultural models to build trust between communities, despite reports of continued targeting of survivors and judges of the "Gacaca" justice system.
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