Vietnam, Afghanistan, Somalia . . . Congo???
KPFA Evening News, 12.23.2012On Wednesday, 12.20.2012, the U.S. House Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the eastern Congo conflict, in which the Committee considered further arming and...
View ArticleVictoire Ingabire's Third Christmas in Prison
KPFA Evening News, 12.25.2012Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire spent her third Christmas behind bars on December 25th, 2012, in Kigali's 1930 Prison. Ingabire returned to her native Rwanda...
View ArticleBruce Dixon on Susan Rice, Africa, and the Black leadership elite
Bruce Dixon, Managing Editor, Black Agenda Report KPFA Evening News, 01.06.2012Bruce Dixon, Managing Editor of the Black Agenda Report, and author of "Did Bloody Hands, Not Black Womanhood Sink Susan...
View ArticleCongolese abandoned by international community
Georges Nzongola, African Studies Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel HillKPFA Evening News, 02.03.2013In December, the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair opened the Special Hearing on...
View ArticleWhat Congo peace treaty?
KPFA Evening News, 03.02.2013KPFA Weekend News Anchor Cameron Jones: Last week this KPFA Newscast reported on the peace treaty said to be intended to end the decades long conflict in the Democratic...
View ArticleIsrael, Zionism, and Rwanda
KPFA Evening News, 03.09.2013KPFA Evening News Anchor Cameron Jones: Rwandan President Paul Kagame will speak at the University of Hartford Connecticut’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Rwandan President...
View ArticleKagame gets $50 million from the World Bank and U.S. power salutes
KPFA Evening News, 03.16.2013 KPFA Evening News Anchor Cameron Jones: The World Bank announced a new $50 million grant to the Rwandan government this week, while Rwandan President Paul Kagame toured...
View ArticleBosco Ntaganda's So-Called Surrender
KPFA Evening News, 03.23.2013Professor Charles KambandaMajor news outlets around the world reported East African warlord Bosco Ntaganda's surrender this week. Rwandan American Law professor Charles...
View ArticleVictoire Ingabire and prosecutors appeal to Rwanda's Supreme Court
KPFA Evening News, 03.30.2013Imprisoned Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, in a Kigali courtroomKPFA Evening News Anchor Cameron Jones: Rwanda’s FDU-Inkingi opposition party is reporting that...
View ArticleWhat about the people of the Congo, General Ban-Ki-Moon?
KPFA Evening News, 03.31.2013B.K. Kumbi managed to interrupt Secretary General General Ban-Ki-Moon's remarks about Congo peace at for one minute at a March conference in Geneva - before security threw...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament calls for Rwandan justice for Victoire Ingabire
KPFA Evening News Anchor: The European Parliament adopted a resolution this week calling for a fair trial for Rwandan political prisoner Victoire Ingabire, whose case is now being heard by the Rwandan...
View ArticleKikwete, Kagame, Obama, and Congo
KPFA Morning Mix, 06.03.2013Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete sparked the outrage of Rwandan President Paul Kagame and other top Rwandan officials when he said, at the African Union’s 50th...
View ArticleRwanda's M23 prepares to fight the UN Brigade, as Obama urges 'Congo's...
KPFA Evening News, 07.06.2013Speaking in Tanzania at the end of his African tour, President Obama urged "countries neighboring the Democratic Republic of the Congo" to make peace. Congo shares borders...
View ArticleCongolese to UN: Let our army engage M23
WBAI AfrobeatRadio broadcast, 07.20.2013In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Congolese Army is reported to be driving Rwanda's M23 militia from their positions in North Kivu Province,...
View ArticleJohn Kerry and Security Council silent on Rwanda backing M23 in Congo
John Kerry addressing the Security Council session on the Great Lakes Region of Africa, 07.25.2013KPFA Evening News, 07.27.2013On Thursday, 07.25.2013, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry led a special...
View ArticleVictoire Ingabire and DR Congo
KPFA Evening News, 08.04.2013Prosecution and defense rested their cases in the Rwandan Supreme Court appeals hearing of imprisoned Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire on the last day of July,...
View ArticlePaul Rusesabagina: Stop legitimating Kagame's Rwanda
KPFA Evening News, 08.10.2013Paul Rusesabagina spoke to KPFA about why he is urging the international community to ignore Rwanda's sham "elections" but not the massacres It commits In Congo.Tags:...
View ArticleCongo and Rwanda trade accusations of cross border weapons fire
KPFA Evening News, 08.24.2013The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda trade accusations of cross border weapons fire in North Kivu Province. The UN Force Intervention Brigade says it's going on...
View ArticlePaul Rusesabagina on Rwanda in 1994 and DR Congo now
KPFA Evening News, 09.28.2013President Barack Obama has suggested that the world's failure to act in Rwanda is a reason to take military action in Syria, but Rwanda in 1994 is a far more complex story...
View ArticleRwandan political prisoner Bernard Ntaganda in peril
Rwanda's P.S.-Imberakuri Party leader Bernard Ntaganda tried to run for president against sitting Rwandan President Paul Kagame, as did FDU-Inkingi Party leader Victoire Ingabire, in 2010. Neither were...
View Article