R.D Congo : des compromissions au compromis - Résolution 2098


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On a poursuivi des génocidaires Rwandais, Serbes, Allemands mais voilà qu’on obligera au Congo Démocratique, de négocier sans cesse, avec des brigands et criminels patentés dont la dernière génération sera mise en déroute en 2013 par les forces armées congolaises avec le soutien déterminant de la brigade spéciale des Nations Unies. Brigade qui n’était que la conséquence d’un jeu d’intérêts en défaveur de Kigali et Kampala, deux compères qui pour une fois, feront les frais de la continuité de cette politique de compromission du Conseil de Sécurité des Nations Unies. Pris de court par la subite et efficace intervention de la Tanzanie et de l’Afrique du Sud, favorisée par le comportement exceptionnel du Président François Hollande dont le pays sera à la base de la résolution 2098, dite résolution « compromis », alors que face à l’Angola et au Zimbabwe entre autres, Paul Kagame et Museveni avaient tenu tête, ceux-ci se rendront à l’évidence, de l’ascendant militaire des sud Africains et Tanzaniens, au point d’assister, dans une débâcle généralisée, au retour de leurs bras séculiers de la R.D Congo. Une remise en cause du leadership Rwandais sous la pression des Etats-Unis, de la France et de la Grande-Bretagne qui doutaient de plus en plus d’un régime vieillissant et déclinant ayant accumulé d’énormes bourdes politiques. Ce tournant intervient après plus ou moins 15 ans de terreur dans l’Est du Congo où des femmes auront subi des viols chroniques avant qu’un compromis ne soit trouvé entre puissants de ce monde dit libre, convaincus de la volonté des Congolais, décidés à garder leur pays dans ses frontières Léopoldiennes. Mais il ne suffit pas de se réjouir de ce vent d’espérance, une nécessité s’impose, celle de comprendre, comment et pourquoi, ce pays aux potentialités minières et à la biodiversité exceptionnelle frisant même l’insolence, en soit arrivé là ? Trois facteurs importants l’expliquent : la compromission interne, liée aux crises politiques et celles des politiques congolais, englués dans une marre de tribalisme, celle sous-régionale avec l’avènement du régime Rwandais né sur les cendres d’un génocide et enfin international, incarnée par les 5 membres permanents du Conseil de Sécurité. L’analyse des trois facteurs semble une exigence à cet instant où la RD Congo tend vers la consolidation de sa démocratie par l’organisation des élections en 2016, un regain d’espoir qui a tendance à se refroidir suite à la volonté des certains activistes politiques, de vouloir instaurer la culture du privilège de fonction, une véritable dictature participative qui si elle advenait, renverrait le pays dans le néant. Eviter un nouveau désastre historique et sociétal, passe par la compréhension des raisons qui ont conduit le pays à la perte de sa souveraineté intégrale. En s’éloignant de l’émotion qui n’est que l’expression d’un sentimentalisme éphémère, on en vient à faire une lecture des faits qui permet alors de mieux appréhender les raisons de ce désordre




Waiting for the Sunrise


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This is a personal account of an interracial familys struggle against pervasive racism in the U.S. and the horrors of the civil war that plagued Rwanda in 1994. Raised in the American Midwest, author Elizabeth Gatorano, who is White, had no idea of the trials she would face after marrying Phanuel, who is Black and an immigrant to the U.S. from Rwanda. Prejudice against their marriage followed them and their children wherever they went, often making them the focus of racist discrimination and threats of violence at home and at work. Throughout these ordeals, Liz and Phanuel responded to hostility with love and patience, their faith in each other and in God remaining unshakable, even in the darkest hours. Together, they overcame all obstacles in their path, and they continue to help those in need today.




Touched By Fire


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When the rapes and massacres, the plagues, the famines, the floods, or the droughts erupt in far-off places, the world stands still. MSF does not. They are the “smoke jumpers” among international aid organizations. While others are often stymied or delayed by bureaucratic red tape, the men and women of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF) move in. They provide food and clean water. They dig latrines. They set up first-aid stations and field hospitals. They treat all-comers according to need. Often they are the last to remain in situations abandoned by others as too dangerous. The risks they take are moral and ethical as well as mortal. They are acutely aware that giving aid is controversial. Does it really do any good to save a child from murder one day when it will probably starve in the weeks ahead? Is it appropriate to bring expensive western medicine into a country that, in the long run, can’t afford it? Should relief be given to civilians who are being starved on purpose, as part of a cynical political game, by a local warlord? Elliot Leyton and Greg Locke saw something of the implications of these and other questions when they travelled to Rwanda in the fall of 1996. There they found themselves plunged into a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Hundreds of thousands of people were on the move. Armed militias and hostile armies lurked in the background. Mass starvation, plague, and an eruption into civil or criminal violence were immediate possibilities. The two Canadians, one an internationally recognized expert on the psychology of killing, the other an experienced photo-journalist, had a rare opportunity to observe MSF in action at a time when the stress was enormous and its resources were stretched to the limit. They watched and listened, to the perpetrators of violence and their victims, to the survivors and those who gave them assistance, and, above all, to the people of MSF who dedicate themselves to saving lives because, in the words of one MSFer: “The world can afford a humanitarian ideal.” The result of Leyton and Locke’s research is an extraordinary written and visual record of small miracles performed in the midst of catastrophe.







Frida


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Tells the true, dramatic story of life amid the horror of genocide, but more importantly of how a woman's life was utterly transformed by the power to forgive and love her enemies. Amazingly, in the midst of the traumas Frida found Christ. Her story is for all those who have gone through life shattering experiences and are unable to forgive.




Africa


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First published in 1993, this is a new revised and substantially expanded edition of a highly acclaimed reference resource that evaluates the leading sources of information (other than bibliographies) on Africa South of the Sahara.




Central and Equatorial Africa Area Bibliography


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Presents information about texts relating to eleven states in the heart of the African continent: Chad, Central African Republic, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, People's Republic of the Congo (formerly Congo-Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Congo-Kinshasa and Zaire), Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, and Malawi. Perfect as a starting point for the beginning researcher, or to supplement a more adept scholar's reference list. Also useful for librarians developing a collection on Africa studies.




A Passage To Africa


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'One of Britain's most respected television journalists, with a reputation built up over many years of covering world events' Guardian 'Tributes will rightly be paid to a fantastic journalist and brilliant broadcaster - but George was the most decent, principled, kindest, most honourable man I have ever worked with' Jon Sopel As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana - the first African country to attain independence from the British Empire. A Passage to Africa is Alagiah's shattering catalogue of atrocities crafted into a portrait of Africa that is infused with hope, insight and outrage. In vivid and evocative prose and with a fine eye for detail, Alagiah's viewpoint is spiked with the freshness of the young George on his arrival in Ghana, the wonder with which he recounts his first impressions of Africa and the affection with which he dresses his stories of his early family life. A sense of possibility lingers, even though the book is full of uncomfortable truths. It is a book neatly balanced on his integrity and sense of obligation in his role as a writer and reporter. The shock of recognition is always there, but it is the personal element that gives A PASSAGE TO AFRICA its originality. Africa becomes not only a group of nations or a vast continent, but an epic of individual pride and suffering.




Strategic Security Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa


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This text challenges the current thinking on strategic security issues in Sub-Saharan Africa by bringing the entire literature together on all of the regions and countries. It provides compelling international and foreign perspectives using various information systems. The book will interest those who want to understand the state and direction of strategic security studies on the continent. The sources in this bibliography are based on peer-reviewed journals, international nongovernmental studies, governmental reports, academic textbooks, and relevant newspaper articles. This volume is tightly organized and has a wide analytical scope and a great deal of information. Focus is on international and U.S influences driving African strategic security issues. The regional and country specific dimensions framing African strategic security issues are covered. This bibliography provides both an organization of expert scholarship and a strong concentration of core information profiles on Sub-Saharan Africa that is strategically based.




Flight for Life


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