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Today’s R&D covers a recent escalation in violence in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and some of its turbulent history since it was granted independence from Belgium in June 1960.
Beautiful Congo, beyond the conflict http://t.co/ZGNwAONlAo
— Sσy ßaßy Uиiicα (@chicabarbiepola) August 28, 2013
International Crisis Group : Understanding Conflict in Eastern Congo (I): The Ruzizi Plain http://t.co/pvMMGlV5ew #Ethiopia
— EthioExodus (@EthioExodus) August 26, 2013
UN intervention brigade in the Congo dispending fire against M23. To what effects in escalating conflict to be seen. http://t.co/8AciC3JuVp
— Vanda Felbab-Brown (@VFelbabBrown) August 28, 2013
US alarmed by escalating fighting between the M23 armed group and armed forces of the #DRC in eastern Congo. http://t.co/F98uK2ZYkP
— Department of State (@StateDept) August 25, 2013
How Congo’s guerillas are hurting its gorillas | http://t.co/gBDsQaopf3
— TIMEWorld (@TIMEWorld) August 26, 2013
UN forces join Congolese soldiers in fighting rebels on front line in eastern Congo http://t.co/JYu9HA8ETs
— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) August 24, 2013
Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo’s Women Hold Key to Lasting Peace http://t.co/Ds7jY5qVW0 #afrique #africa
— Afrique Actu (@afriqueactu) August 21, 2013
UN opens probe in the DR Congo after residents accuse peacekeepers from Uruguay of killing two people http://t.co/fvrAoAuSjt
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) August 26, 2013
Africa’s deadliest war enters a new phase in #Congo http://t.co/1xlgezy7pG via @USATODAY #UN
— Enough Project (@EnoughProject) August 21, 2013
A #UN brigade will likely lessen the threat posed by M23 rebels in #Congo‘s North Kivu province. Read more: http://t.co/gnW7qRPQNU
— Stratfor (@Stratfor) August 28, 2013
From @MSF_USA: Uganda: MSF Increases Assistance to Refugees Fleeing Violence in DRC http://t.co/Jl84XPQad7 #humanitarians
— Rene F. Najera, MPH (@EpiRen) August 27, 2013
In A Season in the Congo, Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Patrice Lumamba is passionate, headstrong and blinkered by optimism http://t.co/rlXRcwtDnU
— The Economist (@EconCulture) August 23, 2013