Officer, my hoagie blood content can't be .25 (tries to hide wrappers of six hoagies strewn in front seat, shirt dripping with blotches of mayo)
29.06.2025 12:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@mwanamokuse.bsky.social
Historian of central Africa (esp. the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon). Director of the School of Humanities at Marywood University. Country conditions expert for DRC, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, Cameroon, and CAR.
Officer, my hoagie blood content can't be .25 (tries to hide wrappers of six hoagies strewn in front seat, shirt dripping with blotches of mayo)
29.06.2025 12:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's a wild world out there. But in all the madness, I never thought I'd see the day when someone called Niall Ferguson the Jimi Hendrix of historians. Well, the wait is over.
29.06.2025 12:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My friends in the Congolese Community of Scranton are organizing a Congolese independence day celebration June 29th beginning at 3:30 PM at the St. Mary's Center, 320 Mifflin Ave, Scranton PA 18503. Please consider helping out by donating! gofund.me/c0f57b51
08.06.2025 10:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Have to say the lack of press coverage of Joseph Kabila's return to the DRC and his apparent alliance with Paul Kagame and his M23/AFC proxies (who often were Kabila loyalists anyway) is astoundingly bad, at least in English.
31.05.2025 00:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whatever one thinks of Congolese president Felix Tshisekedi, former president Joseph Kabila's decision to return to Goma and apparently back the Rwandan backed M23/AFC rebellion is going to lead to more chaos and violence.
26.05.2025 11:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Rwanda RDC: l’entourage de Joseph Kabila et le groupe AFC/M23 affirment que l’ex-président est à Goma #RFI #Rwanda
26.05.2025 11:45 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It was supposed to be a defining moment, but peace talks between the Congolese government and M23 rebels scheduled for this Wednesday in Doha have been postponed. It would have been the first direct talks since M23 fighters seized eastern DR Congo's two largest cities, Goma and Bukavu. (1/2)
10.04.2025 08:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Given the poor state of the roads, it seems like Wazalendo/FARDC hit and run attacks on M23/AFC/Rwandan forces along with other methods that don't seem like they are being used (like placing IEDs on roads) could potentially be effective? Any ideas? I have no military expertise, so who knows...
12.04.2025 21:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A wave of nighttime killings sweeps through South #Kivu's #Bukavu www.radiookapi.net/2025/03/30/a... #congo #drc
30.03.2025 13:30 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0People in Bukavu keep telling me about daily targeted arrests, about gunshots and killings every night. They are living in a ‘psychose totale’. Unlivable.
02.04.2025 10:51 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0DR Congo: Rwanda-Backed M23 Target Journalists, Activists
www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
I don't want to say I grew up in a town full of cults, but they had 1970s satanic cult movie robes before they even had movies windsorhistoricalsociety.org/sarah-rowlan...
05.03.2025 12:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0RDC: reprise timide des cours à Bukavu sous contrôle de l’AFC/M23
26.02.2025 09:26 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Intervention de @thomasportes.bsky.social, député France insoumise, peu avant le début de la manifestation pour le Congo, notamment sur le sort des femmes congolaises, victimes du viol comme arme de guerre. #RDCongo #Rwanda #RwandaIsKiling #M23 #Goma #Bukavu #Kivu
26.02.2025 13:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Sud-Kivu : les corps des 18 personnes tuées dans les affrontements à Bukavu enterrés lapremieretv.cd?p=3114
22.02.2025 10:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0As you contemplate the growing cocoa "shortage" and its impact on your taste buds, please also contemplate this:
In Côte d'Ivoire, the world's leading producer of cocoa (45% in 2024), ordinary ppl can't have chocolate bc of prices and lack of domestic production of chocolate itself.
@FRANCE24: Eye on Africa - DR Congo fighting : M23 move closer to Bukavu
➡️ https://t.co/jE8L0cJcd3
“Our faith is stronger than our suffering. But then, our faith has to be translated into concrete, daily, affirmative actions to reverse this cycle of violence."
07.02.2025 06:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Friends of the Congo is a US-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting peace and ending Rwandan aggression against the Democratic Republic of Congo. Please check out their YouTube channel for updates on the situation from Congolese perspectives. www.youtube.com/live/FFtgBSH...
08.02.2025 14:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0With @judithverweijen.bsky.social I wrote this comment on why the Congo crisis extends beyonds 'conflict minerals'. (version française en dessous de la version angles) www.egmontinstitute.be/congo-crisis...
31.01.2025 10:19 — 👍 22 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 3I had the honour of writing a report on the Rapid Support Forces (#RSF) in #Sudan with Audre Lord for Small Arms Survey.
The report is a comprehensive look at the RSF during the Sudanese civil war: from its political economy to its recruitment strategy.
www.smallarmssurvey.org/resource/rep...
It's been made abundantly clear now that hiring a bunch of private security contractors won't compensate for the structural problems the Congolese army faces, including extremely poor service conditions, deficient logistics and intel, and parallel command chains: www.bbc.com/news/article...
31.01.2025 07:16 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Repost @teamcongo.rdc
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Congolese youth rally in Kinshasa to protest against Rwanda’s attack in Goma
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#freecongo
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/... What’s currently happening in Goma, DRC:
28.01.2025 19:58 — 👍 38 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 0The Rwanda-backed M23 says it’s taken control of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The fighting is having catastrophic consequences for the humanitarian situation around Goma. www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
🔴📄 Attaque de GOMA en RDC : il faut stopper Kagamé.
Au nom du droit international, et des liens qui l’unissent au plus grand pays francophone du monde, la France doit être à la pointe du combat pour l’intégrité territoriale de la République Démocratique du Congo.
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COMMUNIQUÉ OFFICIEL DU 27 JANVIER 2025 En ce jour glorieux de la libération de la ville de Goma, l'AFC/M23 informe l'opinion tant nationale qu'internationale des mesures ci-après : 1. Fin de l'ultimatum accordé aux FARDC: Le délai de 48 heures accordé aux éléments des FARDC est arrivé à son terme. Tous les militaires des FARDC doivent immédiatement remettre leurs armes et équipements militaires à la MONUSCO pour stockage. Par ailleurs, tous les militaires doivent se rassembler avant 3h00 au Stade de l'Unité. Passé ce délai, la ville de Goma sera occupée. 2. Suspension des activités lacustres : À compter de maintenant, toutes les activités lacustres sont suspendues jusqu'à nouvel ordre. 3. Appel au calme : Nous demandons à tous les habitants de Goma de rester calmes. La libération de la ville a été menée à bien et la situation est sous contrôle.
#DRCongo The latest press release from M23/Rwanda since their takeover of the city of Goma
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