Suffocating Congo’s War / Foreign Policy
The following is in response to a rebuttal by the Enough Project to my previous Foreign Policy story, “How Dodd-Frank Is Ruining Congo.” In a badly…
How Dodd-Frank Is Failing Congo / Foreign Policy
Minerals are ruining lives. For several years now, in conversations about conflict and crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, this has been a common refrain.…
Turn On, Retweet, Tune Out / Foreign Policy
Deborah Sanya, an 18-year-old Nigerian student who was kidnapped by Boko Haram in the mass raid on a school in Chibok back in mid-April, took a…
Abuse of Power / Foreign Policy
BUNIA, Democratic Republic of the Congo — A dust-diffused brightness illuminated female speakers dressed in patterns of orange and green, yellow and blue as they addressed…
Violence Begets Violence / Foreign Policy
KIGALI, Rwanda — A woman sat in the strong sun outside Rwanda’s genocide memorial at the end of February and told me what happened to her…
Blind Spot / Foreign Policy
The village of Bogoro, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a place swathed in green, dusted with orange earth, and studded with gold deposits. In…