Congo: rape problem escalatingEastern Congo is already considered by the UN to be “the rape capital of the world”. But the recent increase in men on men rape is a worrying trend.
Rwandan genocide
Crikey Clarifier: Politics in the Congo
What exactly is going on in the Congo? Dr David Dorward explains in the first installment of an exciting new Crikey series.
Conflict in the Congo: a Crikey wrap
Violence, rebel armies sponsored by the Rwandan government, failing cease-fires, Guatemalan militia brought in as peace keeping troops and cholera breaks out in refugee camps… what’s going on?
Iraq: more deaths than during the Rwandan genocide?
Some time back, the Lancet published a study that put the number of violent deaths attributable to the invasion and occupation of Iraq at 601,000. Now the American group Just Foreign Policy has produced an updated figure, suggesting that to date the war and occupation have killed nearly a million Iraqis.
