Enrolling the world’s poorest children in school needs new thinking, not just more money from taxpayers.

Do we really need to say that we can’t address suffering in Congo, because we have our own needs?

In a land full of corrupt leaders, Lisa Shannon has assumed responsibility.

Hark the heralds of Congo’s disabled underclass!

To purchase carbon credits from the countries of the Congo Basin would help the American industry and protect the rainforests.

Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled a $17 million plan to fight Congo’s stunning levels of sexual violence.

is fighting for better working conditions and the protection of the environment in IT production

As Obama weighs global justice against U.S. interests, he faces the same major objection Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton had to the court: that American troops might be targeted in politically motivated trials.

In countries that should be setting an example — South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya — the war on corruption has suffered major setbacks before rapacious and ruthless politicians; in Burundi and the Congo Republic, anticorruption campaigners have been killed.
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There seem to be two Joseph Kabilas running Congo: a strongman who rolls into town in an impressive column of steel and a shy man with a warm, almost Caribbean lilt to his voice.

The UN’s peacekeeping role is a vital one, both armed protection and local confidence-building. The Congolese people need both.

The unlikely partnership between Rwandan and Congolese forces, which led to the capture of the warlord leader Laurent Nkunda, is a good sign for the war-torn region.

Thomas Lubanga, once the leader of a powerful and violent militia, is accused of war crimes, including commandeering children under the age of 15 and sending them into war to maim and kill.

By Matthias Basanisi (The New York Times)
THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2008
There is evidence that the UN covered up evidence of gold smuggling and arms trafficking by its peacekeepers in Congo .