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...latest chapter in the crisis began in October 2008 when Tutsi rebel leader Laurent Nkunda launched an offensive, taking advantage of the weak Congolese President, Joseph Kabila, and his collapsing army. Nkunda quickly doubled his territory in the province of North Kivu and threatened to march on the capital, Kinshasa. The U.N. says a quarter of North Kivu's 4 million people are now refugees as a result. "This is war" was Nkunda's explanation...
...rebel leader has doubled his territory in the last few weeks, precipitating a humanitarian crisis involving a million refugees. And with his forces closing in on the regional capital Goma and facing a collapsing national army and a weak and isolated President, his threat to take the Congolese capital Kinshasa is suddenly one to take seriously. Nkunda's decision to hold a rally and press conference on Nov. 22 in Rutshuru, newly captured by his forces, was a chance to discover what kind of leader he might prove to be. (See pictures of Congo on the brink...
...such crude attempts at image management only enhance Nkunda's poor reputation. Asked about how he viewed the one million refugees and humanitarian crisis that his campaign had helped create, he replied: "This is war. We are fighting. People are fearing. Of course." Asked whether he would march on Kinshasa, the rebel leader replied: "Why not?" At the rally, he added: "Nkunda is here today to bring freedom. The whole country is going to be liberated." How many times has Africa heard that...
...first sent to the D.R.C. by the AP in 2003. The job repeatedly put him on the front line - his book opens with a long description of a brutal gun battle between two tribal militia groups in the eastern town of Bunia. It then moves to the capital, Kinshasa, where Mealer was posted by the Associated Press wire agency in 2004, and covers the bumpy transition from war to peace. After that, it's back to more fighting in the east, before Mealer embarks on two long journeys across the country, by boat and by rail. In June...
...Flanders' secession from the Kingdom of Belgium. Over the next hour and a half, the trusted TV anchors fielded a spectacular special report: They cut to live footage from the Royal Palace, where an emotional crowd had gathered to protest for the survival of their country. A reporter in Kinshasa, capital of the Congo, commented on rumors that King Albert II had fled to the former Belgian colony. A crowd waved Flemish flags behind the live reporter at the Flemish Parliament. The ring road around the capital, Brussels, was blocked, NATO headquarters on red alert, and police controls thrown...