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March 6, 2023
United States
Biden’s Progress on Women’s Rights: Good Start, But Not Fast Enough
More than two years into his presidency, Joseph Biden has achieved some of his gender equality goals, and fallen short on others.
March 8, 2019
Democratic Republic of Congo
Global Conflict This Week: New Reforms and Transitions in the DRC
Developments in conflicts across the world that you might have missed this week.
June 20, 2018
Democratic Republic of Congo
Podcast: Scene Setter for Planned December Election in Congo
Though Prime Minister Bruno Tshibala of Democratic Republic of Congo officially announced on June 12 that President Joseph Kabila would not stand for a controversial third term, this has not ended speculation that Kabila, whose term of office expired in 2016, will find a way to continue to stay in power. Shortly thereafter, in what will surely complicate the election, the International Criminal Court acquitted Jean-Pierre Bemba, the former Congolese vice president, an ex-warlord, and a fierce rival of Kabila.
October 17, 2023
Central Africa
The Lumumba Plot
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo.
February 8, 2019
Democratic Republic of Congo
An Alternative Perspective on the U.S. Decision to Recognize Tshisekedi
In the daily Africa in Transition blog, on February 6, 2019, Ambassador Michelle Gavin, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Program, harshly criticized the United States government’s policy toward the December 2018 presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
January 14, 2019
Democratic Republic of Congo
Accountability Lacking in Congo Election Debate
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s complicated and long-delayed elections ended with a surprise twist. Right now, it appears that Tshisekedi owes his victory to Kabila and the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy. That loss of connective tissue to the citizens of the country distorts accountability in ways unlikely to deliver the relief from predatory governance that the Congolese people crave.
