Interviews – en

Listen to Peter Rosenblum’s interview with the BBC regarding the contract review process. Here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/business/2009/10/091016_rosenblum_audio.shtml

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The Enough Project, a leading Washington, DC-based advocacy group focusing on genocide and crimes against humanity, is stepping up efforts to end conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip last month to the troubled eastern region has put a spotlight on the humanitarian crisis in the area and inevitably raises questions about what the U.S. government can and will do. In an interview, Enough co-founder John Prendegast talks about changing the economic equation for conflict minerals and the role that Uganda and Rwanda can play in ending the crisis. Excerpts:

Ce parti invite le Gouvernement RD-congolais à présenter la disponibilité du pays à recevoir l'élu des élus En garantissant à la CPI les conditions exigées pour la poursuite de la procédure

Melanne Verveer
Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
Washington, DC
August 14, 2009

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
August 10, 2009

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

The following are edited excerpts of Jeffrey Gettleman's interview with Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(*) President and CEO of El Niño Ventures

Faatimah Hendricks

Interview

In a surprise move last month, Rwanda detained its erstwhile ally, the Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, who led an offensive in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo late last year, defeating government forces in a series of battles. Masoka Hubert Tshiswaka is the DRC programme manager for the Open Society Institute. AllAfrica's Faatimah Hendricks discussed with him what the future looks like in the eastern DRC after Nkunda's detention. Excerpts:

[These early Obama days in France are all abuzz over the new Pierre Péan book pantsing Bernie Kouchner, “Le Monde Selon K.” (kind of a riff on another French journalist’s work, Karl Zero's fucku-Bush-a-mentary, "The World According to W.", or Oliver Stone's cute comedy, just plain 'W'.–W's even pictured caressing K on Péan’s cover.).

A United Nations panel of experts on Friday accused Rwandan officials of complicity in the latest eruption of violence in Eastern Congo, and of supporting Laurent Nkunda, the ethnic Tutsi rebel who has captured a swathe of territory. The accusations come on the back of growing international pressure on the governments of both Kigali and Kinshasa to address long standing grievances that led to the outbreak of two previous wars in 1996 and between 1998 and 2003.

William Wallis, Financial Times Africa editor, interviewed President Paul Kagame of Rwanda recently in Geneva. The following is an abridged transcript