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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 91–100.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Daniel Fahey When Daniel Fahey visited eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as coordinator of the U.N.’s Group of Experts, he found a charismatic charlatan known as “Mr. X” under the protection of the U.N. A star witness in a murder trial, Mr. X had convinced the U.N. of his tall tales. Fahey shows...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 21–25.
Published: 01 June 2000
.... Fighting reignited of both universal values and regional peace within the Democratic Republic of Congo at stake. It was with these propositions in and in Angola. Violence, much of it along mind that the trans-Atlantic community racial lines, broke out in Zimbabwe. stepped in and ended the wars...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 43–48.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... At the time of his arrival, there were barely three million landline telephones on the entire continent—the bulk of them in North Africa and the nation of South Africa. Most of sub-Saharan Africa was all but inaccessible to terrestrial telephone lines. The Democratic Republic of Congo had only 3,000 phones...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 9–14.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of Congo (in contrast with its far smaller and no more democratic neighbor simply named Republic of Congo). The sad joke, of course, is that none of these “People’s” re-gimes are in the least democratic, and these “Democraticrepublics are hardly run by the people. Yet, this has not stopped proud...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 81–90.
Published: 01 June 2013
... 2013 2013 World Policy Institute Sasha Lezhnev Sasha Lezhnev Kinshasa, Congo—Joachim Andersson owned and operated a string of failed businesses before he founded Mineral Invest and began mining for gold in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. During the 1980s, Andersson worked...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 65–77.
Published: 01 December 2013
... for little to no money in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Zimbabwe. They would then ship the diamonds to Dubai, where they would be given certificates of mixed origin—legal under the Kimberley Process definition—and subsequently over-value the worth of those diamonds. From Dubai, the diamonds...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 11–20.
Published: 01 June 2000
... for Africa” Lessons of a Continental War Jeremy M. Weinstein The war in the Democratic Republic of the invaded Tanzania in 1978, and only the Congo ( d r c ), which began in August 1998, third since I960. Although Africa is seen as is unprecedented— at times involving ar­...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 70–80.
Published: 01 December 2011
... corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” a damning description in a country where an estimated 5.4 million people died as a result of war between 1998 and 2007—more than in any other conflict since World War II. It is the spread of such communal battles—and the history of broad, land-based...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 22–23.
Published: 01 March 2013
... drastically. 5. Burundi Landlocked and boasting a single television station, Burundi is ranked the world’s worst in enabling trade by the World Economic Forum. 6. Democratic Republic of the Congo In a country five times the size of California, less than 1 percent of roads are paved...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 104–113.
Published: 01 June 2012
... struck me was how quickly a neighboring dictator swung into action and how quickly “the people” could be mobilized in adoring support. Damien Glez Mobutu Sese-Seko served as ruler of the Democratic Republic of Congo, known then and for much of his nearly 32-year reign as Zaire. By the time I...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 77–85.
Published: 01 March 2015
... heads of state were facing the same predicament: Yayi Boni of Benin, Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo, Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, and Paul Kagame of Rwanda. Now, who will even dare program a change in any article of their constitution that prevents...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2013
... Republic of Congo and their surprising funding source: an under-regulated Swedish stock exchange. Elsewhere in Africa, John Frederick Walker challenges the conventional wisdom on the ivory trade. In Colombia, Sibylla Brodzinsky bears witness to the victims of guerrilla terrorism. Finally, in his Coda...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 111–120.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of Chad put somewhat more faith in a neighboring dictator—Mobutu Sese Seko—president, at least in name, of the Democratic Republic of Congo. And if ever there was an Imperial President, it was Mobutu. For 32 years, Mobutu presided, all but unchallenged, as ruler of the deeply impoverished nation he...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 31–34.
Published: 01 December 2014
... influx of foreigners immigrating to Sweden from places like Eritrea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, and Turkey, as well as Gypsies from Eastern Europe. The charge that there are too many of them and that they are taking jobs and benefits from ethnic Swedes was the main thrust...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 92–94.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Belgian Congo, South Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Liberia, Cyprus, and— as we too keenly now realize— in Afghanistan, where a Soviet-supported regime change in Kabul in 1978-79 prompted covert American aid to a Pakistan-directed uprising that culminated...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 65–77.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, and Pakistan are frequently threatened or killed. The reasons can range—often with motives that are somewhat opaque—from classic conflicts to inter-tribal or ethnic rifts to battles over resources. These grave abuses of medicine raise serious challenges for all...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 1–10.
Published: 01 June 2000
.... first is seen in the Democratic Republic of They and their leaders are more free to de­ Congo (former Zaire), where large swaths of cide what is really worth fighting for, rather the huge country are inaccessible to interna­ than clashing over the perks of international tional humanitarians due...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 25–32.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Republic of Congo, or ern governments, nor the n g o s, nor the Burundi, there was no food crisis, or water U.N. specialized agencies—above all, the crisis, or shelter crisis, or medical crisis. Ob­ Office of the High Commissioner for Refu­ viously, there were plenty of needs that hu­ gees (UNHCR)—had...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 2–5.
Published: 01 December 2001
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 71–80.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). But this time the wait was different. He’d come to hear a mzungu (white person) talk about a new project that was about to arrive in the camp—the Ideas Box. Set on a barren plain of 200 acres, Kavumu is Burundi’s fourth and newest refugee camp...
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