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Kila kitu na wakati yake… 📚 My book, Conflict Minerals Inc. is out now with Hurst and Oxford University Press. Reviewers say it’s “lucid, compassionate and personal”, and a “devastating and essential reading.” Here is to a few pictures and key points... 🧵
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On this morning, four years ago, I woke up somewhere in Fizi area, eastern
#Congo
. Around 6am, my friend Michael
@SharpMusings
messaged me, saying he and Zaida
@zcatalan
would be off the day and return towards the evening. A thread, because we do not forget.
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#Kinshasa
Njili ça bouge: Test Covid, formalités DGM et Hygiene etc — tout en 15 minutes! Changer le narratif, comme le dit
@PatrickMuyaya
...! Et on espère que le service bagages prendra bon exemple aussi un jour!
#CongoFautEbonga
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Voici notre nouveau rapport
@KivuSecurity
@GEC_CRG
sur la situation des groupes armés à l’est du
#Congo
—
Here is our latest
@KivuSecurity
@GEC_CRG
report on the landscape of armed groups in eastern
#DRC
—
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My take, for
@NewLeftReview
, on why the escalating conflict in eastern Congo is reminiscent of 1998, rather than 2012, and why the current situation is as intractable as it is dangerous for the region.
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Perhaps one of the most important books across political theory, economics and postcolonial studies since the likes of Polanyi, Rodney, Fanon and CLR James. Mini-review🧵
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Today marks 7 years since the assassination of Michael and Zaida. Not only friends, they were stellar colleagues investigating war crimes, and cowardly killed precisely because they were so brilliant in what they did. Please join me in mourning and in cherishing their memory.
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Comrade
@josaphatmusamba
and I have a
#longread
on
#ConflictMinerals
in the fabulous
@DissentMag
. Our text offers some broader reflection, not only in relation to
#Congo
, but also regarding
#violence
and global
#supplychain
governance.
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#RDC
: A new book is out on the
#DRC
. Or was it on
#Congo
-
#Brazzaville
, dear
@EnoughProject
...!? cc
@RyanGosling
(+ anonymous hat-tip to a dear friend..)
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In light of ongoing events, it is interesting to look at data. M23 doesn’t seem to be a major source of civilian deaths in eastern
#Congo
since its return 2017. This doesn’t mean it isn’t illegal and committing violations galore, but it may nuance the current polemic a bit.
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Hier je me suis fait insulté par une bande de trolls pour avoir dit que ce language nazi n’est ni acceptable, ni utile pour le
#Congo
. Aujourd’hui je l’entends parler dans un space parler du remplacement via l’accaparement de terre, langage code antisemite et raciste bien connu.
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Five years, friends. Where there is no justice, we need to rely on love alone.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
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Mai-Mai Washington
Remember when desecration of monuments was a major Trump talking point? This morning?
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Could
@TheEconomist
be largely responsible for Europe’s colonial denial?
Could this insect be largely responsible for Africa's underdevelopment?
http://t.co/0pb8a4GJww
http://t.co/RymWEQGzA2
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Heureux de bientôt publier mon livre “Conflict Minerals Inc.” en français. Stay tuned…
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#Congo
: Interested in conflict studies or the Great Lakes region? Check out our latest paper with
@jasonkstearns
in
@AfrAfJournal
where we dissect a decade of entrenched conflict dynamics in and around
#Kivu
.
#DRC
#RDC
cc
@uzh_news
@nyuCIC
@KivuSecurity
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On why
#Ebola
has nothing to do with
#coltan
, and why we should focus on actual challenges instead of rehashing stupid clichés. A response to
@Laurie_Garrett
— …
#Congo
#DRC
#RDC
@MinSanteRDC
@DrTedros
@MSF
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Four must-read
#Congo
-related books will be out this month. Can’t wait to read them all:
Roadblock Politics (
@peer_schouten
)
The War that doesn’t say its name (
@jasonkstearns
)
Rainforest Capitalism (Thomas Hendriks)
Disarmed, a biography of
@SharpMusings
(
@hungrymarshall
)
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Ok, Twitter, let me add my two cents as I am recovering from
#COVID2019
, enfin. Unstructured thread...
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Took us a little longer than the corresponding report, but thanks to a few skilled pairs of hands, the interactive map of belligerents is now online, including specific short bios for each actor.
#Congo
#Kivu
#Security
La dernière carte KST des groupes armés dans l’est de la
#RDC
est maintenant disponible en version interactive sur > carte > Voir > Zone d’opération ».
#Kivu
#Ituri
#Tanganyika
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Just been told
@JudiRever
attributes
#Beni
violence to RPF. Nice try but never having been there and investigated on the ground leaves her with classic white gaze to replace knowledge. Judging from past tweeting she probably sourced exclusively from conspiracy theorist Boniface.
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Missing words to frame how grateful I am to
@Ras_Karya
@m_debos
@louisalombard
@ABisoka
—on whose giants’ shoulders I often stand—for their humbling comments on my
@HurstPublishers
@OUPAcademic
book.
Conflict Minerals, Inc.
Pre-orders are approaching.
Watch this space 🙏🏽
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30 years running the most important human rights organisation in the world and still retweeting clickbait headlines obfuscating a deadly conflict that deserves serious analysis rather than cheap white saviour takes…
The Rwandan government is again backing the murderous M23 rebel group in eastern Congo -- and again falsely denying that it is doing so -- as part of its quest to control the resource-rich area.
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Le degré de bêtise de certains est vraiment époustouflant. Etant parmi les auteurs des rapports d’experts UN, je peux rassurer tout le monde que le monsieur ci-dessous n’a rien compris (et qu’il ne cesse pas à être une source de fake news par excellence). Le
#Congo
mérite mieux.
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Heureux d’annoncer la sortie de mon nouveau livre chez
@mlimanieditions
ce samedi à la librairie Lave Littéraire de Goma — illustré avec l’art de du sublime
@Moridja
🎨📚
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Il y a 3 ans que vous étiez lâchement assassinés, Michael
@SharpMusings
et Zaida
@zcatalan
.
Namushika ndani moyo yangu. Je lève mon verre, bon voyage les amis...
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Six years today. A double murder, a deceptive UN report by incompetent officials and a sham trial in
#Congo
. Michael, Zaida, as we mourn you we learn that truth, love and memory provide an ounce of a remedy when there is no justice. Tunamukumbuka wapenzi…
On this morning, four years ago, I woke up somewhere in Fizi area, eastern
#Congo
. Around 6am, my friend Michael
@SharpMusings
messaged me, saying he and Zaida
@zcatalan
would be off the day and return towards the evening. A thread, because we do not forget.
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Outre des chiffres illusoires et le titre négationniste, est-ce que Onana a déjà foulé un pieds au Kivu? Voyagé 12h en moto pour écouter les victimes dans la forêt, ou des Mai-Mai? Les écrivains commerçants qui font fortune sur le dos des congolais•es me donnent envie de vomir.
#Holocauste_Au_Congo
de mon frère
#Charles_Onana
@duboiris
, est en vente en librairie depuis ce mercredi 12 avril. 👏🏽👌🏽
#Congo
#G
énocide
🇷🇼
#RwandaIsKilling
🔪
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Sur l’antenne
@franceculture
, j’ai discuté ce matin avec
@juliegacon
sur les récents développements et défis autour de la question
#M23
et d’autres conflits à l’est du
#Congo
. A re-écouter ici:
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Been a fan of
@ROAPEjournal
for a number of years now, humbled to have a piece published there, titled "The Politics of Incontournables: Entrenching Patronage
Networks in Eastern Congo’s Mineral Markets". Here is a link for 50 free downloads:
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Laurie. If you use my work on armed groups in
#Congo
, you should better also look at my work on
#minerals
. And the work of so many others. Sorry for mansplaining, but your piece is utter fantasy, pure nonsense and has nothing to do with reality on the ground. cc
@ForeignPolicy
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I’ve interviewed roughly 50 ex-
#ADF
in the past six years or so, to a large extent alongside
@SharpMusings
, and this reflects fairly precisely what I’ve heard and learnt.
#Congo
#Beni
Good job,
@RadicalMzungu
@judithverweijen
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Unfortunately, Dr Mukwege is wrong on one important aspect here. As my
@HurstPublishers
@OUPAcademic
book "Conflict Minerals Inc." demonstrates, three decades of war and violence in eastern
#DRC
are neither "mainly economic" nor is the exploitation of minerals a "root cause"...
With the memorandum of understanding signed on February 19 between the European Union (EU) and Rwanda to promote the development of "sustainable" and "resilient" value chains for raw materials, also known as conflict or blood minerals, the European executive is not only reaching
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Immensely proud and thankful of having co-created and steered
#InsecureLivelihoods
as I prepare to step down as Research Director. 3 years of collaborative research on conflict dynamics in eastern
#Congo
, 16 in-depth reports in French/English, 3 institutions, over 40 researchers.
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📚 Triple lancement de livres à
#Bruxelles
📚
Rejoignez-nous mercredi le 25 mai 18h au
@CEC_ONG
pour un débat sur les conflits et connexions globales du
#Congo
avec
@WenBash
@peer_schouten
@jasonkstearns
@ABisoka
.
Diffusion en ligne
#CarrefourCongo
via
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As often, Congolese armed groups team up in a mix of patriotism & opportunism when facing — actual or imagined — foreign invaders. Now, Guidon Shimiray’s NDC-R reached Kitchanga, where he joins Janvier Karairi’s APCLS. Col Tokolonga who brokered the Pinga alliance is there too.
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So this must be Sylvosco Mudatanganda of the CNDLR rebel group. An avid pianist in his free time, fluent in German and capable to teleport constantly between The Hague and Makomalehe. Can someone help?
@africasacountry
@schlindweinsim
@jasonkstearns
@Melaniegouby
@judithverweijen
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Avant qu’il soit trop tard, temps de dire merci à toutes et tous qui ont rendu possible ma tournée de lancement de Conflict Minerals Inc. — replay d’un passage bref mais riche…
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Multiple sources report that former M23 units made progress from Cyanzu/Jomba, leaving Bunagana aside, to Cyengerero which is situated on strategic Rutshuru-Bunagana road. UPDF build-up on Ugandan side of Bunagana. This offensive comes shortly after a FARDC raid on M23 hideouts.
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Kila kitu na wakati yake... et en français: Mon livre Conflict Minerals Inc. vient de sortir chez Hurst et Oxford University Press. Selon les critiques, il est « lucide, compatissant et personnel, » une « lecture dévastatrice et essentielle ». Un thread avec les points clés.
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Hormis ce français plutôt « créatif », la forte méconnaissance des sensibilités sur terrain et un mépris au sens large, je ne me souviens pas quand une implication militaire américaine au
#Congo
a donné des résultats positifs pour la population.
#PouletMayo
#PP4PP
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First baby steps into podcasting and an immense pleasure to debate my forthcoming
@HurstPublishers
book “Conflict Minerals Inc.” with
@Yale
’s Sarah Daly & the effulgent
@josaphatmusamba
on
@afrophiles
. An hour of eclectic zooming in and out between
#Congo
mines & global politics.
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We look forward to a peaceful political process in the USA that puts the voices of the American people front and center. The world is watching.
(I hope I did not misquote)
We look forward to a peaceful political process in the DRC that puts the voices of the Congolese people front and center. The world is watching.
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Le
#DDR
n’est facile, ni au
#Congo
ni ailleurs et surtout pas après 20 ans de conflits cycliques.
@josaphatmusamba
et moi pensent qu’on doit reflechir plus et mieux, dépolitiser les débats et re-politiser l’analyse.
@cibalanky
@crg_crg
@soniarolley
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Fromage de
#Kilolirwe
,
#Masisi
. Affiné 6 mois supplémentaires au frigo et désormais prêt pour une soirée Raclette. Même quand tout le monde parle guerre, n’oublions jamais l’excellence du
#Kivu
#Congo
.
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Selon plusieurs témoignages dans la zone ils ont été arrêtés non loin de Kazuba, un village en proximité de Biruma et Kalengera et à environ 20km vol d’oiseau de la frontière.
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In case you’ve missed this one as I did, check out our latest investigation on how the
#Ebola
response in eastern
#Congo
got embroiled in conflict dynamics and contributed to violence against civilians. Proud to have led this research on behalf of the
@GEC_CRG
team...
This Thursday,
@GEC_CRG
is releasing "Rebels, Doctors and Merchants of Violence: how the fight against Ebola became part of the conflict in eastern DRC," the second report in the
#EbolaInDRC
series
For more details
↪️FR
↪️EN
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With spotlights turned at the evolving M23 crisis, little attention seems left for else. At the intersection of Walikale and Lubero, clashes are ongoing between NDC-Renové and FPP/AP. In Bashali and Bwito areas, an increasing number of killings are reported the past days.
#Congo
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I’ve been listening to this guy’s spaces on and off the past days. Other than spending half the time cutting of speakers with random fake news and impromptu speeches, he also just told hundreds of people that “everything is in place” to wipe out Rwanda. Congo deserves better.
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One of the few comprehensive publications on the history of the FDLR I know of—now as free download in French. Vital contribution by
@schlindweinsim
@kongoecho
@biancaschmolze
.
#Congo
#Rwanda
Nouvelle publication. Dans notre catégorie
#Dossiers
. "Les FDLR, histoire d'une milice rwandaise: Des forêts du Kivu aux tribunaux d l'Allemagne".
@Kongoecho
@BiancaSchmolze
@schlindweinsim
@NeneMorisho
@KemperBarbara
@ethuin
@c_kayser
@Allemagne_RDC
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Aksanti bandugu. Quel plaisir de discuter avec vous aujourd’hui. Fier d’être parmi la grande famille ISP/Bukavu, CERUKI, GEC-SH 🙏🏽
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As I update my library on so-called
#conflictminerals
in eastern
#Congo
, I realize that this
@IPISResearch
report ranks definitely among the best works out there. Sober, solid research that confirms almost everything I could find in a decade of research.
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Very inspiring and enjoyable to sit down with the great people at
@E_IR
and talk about the past, present and future of conflict research as well as my own work on violence, knowledge production and research ethics in contemporary civil wars.
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An unexpected story of hope has just occured in a conflict-ridden region known as the “NYT”.
@GemsGettle
@NairobiNyt
@africasacountry
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In light of current and past events, this is a truly remarkable tweet.
I trust
@USAmbDRC
is still in DC, forming a bulwark to defend a fragile democracy.
In this dark hour, the US people deserve a privileged partnership for peace and prosperity to rebuild a shattered nation.
The Trump Administration supported the first-ever peaceful transfer of power in the DRC.
#LeadingFromTheFront
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The mental colonialism of our times is embodied in the belief we can understand a place without listening to its people.
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Twitter is complicated. I never understand what is a parody account and what isn’t...
Committed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
We’ve had a presence in the DRC since 2008. See how we’re contributing to the country not just though taxes and royalties, but by supporting jobs in other sectors, public health programmes and education initiatives.
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#DRC
: For on-the-ground coverage of
#RDCvote
– follow
@ligodipatient
@Ley_Uwera
@SMupfuni
@symocel
@Jbofengo
@Ensapu1
@StanysBujakera
@wembi_steve
@giuliaparavicin
@habariRDC
@PierreBoisselet
@C_SOI
@LitsaniChoukran
@Polymuz
@AnthonyFouchard
@KivuSecurity
@KimKimuntu
@WTBClowes
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It has taken almost 5 months for a major media outlet to report from
#Kishishe
and even now, there is little certainty except that many people died. A deeper investigation, beyond journalistic method, is surely needed but I fear it may never happen…
Mass graves, unclaimed bodies haunt east DR Congo Kishishe town
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J’ai parlé, avec
@judubb
du
@LeMonde_Afrique
, pas sur l’attaque qui a couté la vie à Moustapha, Luca et Vittorio, mais sur le contexte plus large dans lequel de tels évènements se produisent à l’est du
#Congo
.
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Parental leave reading list. 12 books/12 weeks ft.
@OlufemiOTaiwo
@SaidBouamama
@LaurentKasindi
@SinzoAanza
@Blaise_Ndala
@JoseEAgualusa
@Collins_SOCY498
@DorinneKondo
@bobwhite
@coboje
et al.
Suggestions to add/replace? Everything goes except parenting books…
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Il y a deux jours, une intelligence artificielle nommée
@sugiramireille
(encore en phase d’essai il me semble) a posé une question importante. J’ai fait le suivi avec une autre intelligence artificielle nommée
@OpenAI
et voici quelques réponses.
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