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Daesh’s new territories

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 30 April 2019

Although there is no longer any reason for the jihadists to split themselves between Al-Qaïda and Daesh, the two organisations continue their war in the Greater Middle East. Paradoxically, it is now Al-Qaïda which runs a pseudo-State, the governorate of Idlib, and Daesh which organises attacks (…)

The head of the Congolese opposition had engaged mercenaries to perpetrate a coup d’État

24 May 2016

A prosperous businessman and ex-Governor of Katanga, Moïse Katumbi, was arrested on the 13 May 2016. He was one of the principal leaders of the opposition to President Joseph Kabila in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was apparently «brutalised» by the police and was hospitalised.
The (…)

Paul Kagame: “Our Kind of Guy”

by Edward S. Herman , David Peterson

3 January 2011

What if we got it wrong about the massacres that ripped across Rwanda in 1994? According to Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, what really happened was not a genocide by the Hutu Power against the Tutsis, but a secret U.S. war that butchered an equal number of victims on both sides of the (…)

European Union’s declaration on the arrest and transfer of Thomas Lubanga

Brussels (Belgium) | 28 March 2006

The European Union welcomes the surrender of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo by the authorities
of the Democratic Republic of Congo and his transfer by France to the International
Criminal Court on 17 March 2006. Mr. Lubanga is alleged to have committed war crimes,
namely enlisting and conscripting (…)

The European Union presidency statement on freedom of expression in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Brussels (Belgium) | 17 October 2005

The European Union is concerned about freedom of expression in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Between January and August 2005 Journalistes En Danger (JED) reported 37 cases of imprisonment of journalists, compared with 23 similar arrests in the whole of 2004.
The right to freedom of (…)

“In Congo, 1,000 die per day: Why isn’t it a media story?”

by Andrew Stroehlein

23 June 2005

We frequently hear discussions about the fact that media outlets do not pay attention to the conflict in Congo. However, this reflection does not make the media talk more about it, the deadliest conflict since World War II.
It is an absurd situation whose consequence is the absolute silence (…)