PHOTO 1: "A joint team (Malawi, Tanzania and South Africa) arrives in Goma on a reconnaissance mission ahead of the deployment of the Intervention Brigade in eastern DRC, 12 March 2013. Photo by Sylvain Liechti." (MONUSCO photo legend)

PHOTO 2: Rwandan propaganda claims that these guys killing time at Ngoma Interment Camp in Eastern Province, Rwanda, are among the 689 defeated fighters of the pro-Bosco Ntaganda M23 faction.

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No one in the DRC is fooled any longer by the bombastic communiqués being fired urbi et orbi by the M23, including the most recent one, appointing two new… ( Read on! )

(PHOTO: Dr. Cécile Kyenge Kashetu, 49, new Italian minister for Integration)

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Enrico Letta, the new Italian leftist prime minister, has just
appointed the first ever black cabinet minister in Italian history.

The new minister was until her appointment an MP of the leftist
Democratic Party (PD), Cécile Kyenge Kashetu, who has to manage the
contentious portfolio of Integration, a newfangled political-correct
ministry.

And she happens to be a Congolese-born eye surgeon who emigrated to
Italy in her late teens, and later on became a naturalized Italian
citizen.

Dr. Kyenge is married… ( Read on! )

(PHOTO: CLOCKWISE: Lea Ndombasi, youth organizer; Yangu Kiakwama,
opposition political activist; an unidentified civil society actor;
me; USAID/DRC Acting Mission Director Catherine Andang; USAID/DRC
Mission Director Diana Putman; USAID Deputy Administrator for Africa
Earl W. Gast; Chief of staff of USAID Africa Bureau Sean Maloney; and
Angèle Makombo-Eboum, opposition leader)

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For his first visit to Kinshasa, Earl W. Gast, USAID Deputy
Administrator for Africa, found time in the early afternoon of
Wednesday, April 10, to talk with a select group of representatives of
civil… ( Read on! )

(PHOTO: Jules Hakizimwami, right, Speaker of the North-Kivu Provincial
Assembly, with Governor Julien Paluku)

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Jules Hakizimwami, Speaker of the North-Kivu Provincial Assembly, held
a press briefing in Goma on Thursday, April 4, in which he was
hysterically denouncing Rwanda for sending personnel reinforcement to
M23 positions over the course of these last three days.

Strangely, as was noted by the Radio Okapi report on Hakizimwami's
press briefing, the timeline of the alleged M23 personnel infiltration
back into DRC territory overlaps with the announcement of the
relocation deeper… ( Read on! )

(PHOTO 1: Howard G. Buffet, billionaire philanthropist and
self-appointed stakeholder in the African Great Lakes Region)

(PHOTO 2: Erstwhile CIA operative and US State Department official
Hank Crumpton, CEO of the Crumpton Group and pen-for-hire of Howard G.
Buffet)

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Writing yesterday in the Kigali-based daily New Times, reporter
Eugene Kwibuka celebrated--no doubt as a vindication of the Rwandan
government unconvincing denial of its involvement in setting up and
micromanaging the M23 bandits--the polished hogwash, written by
lobbyists on behalf of billionaire Howard G. Buffet and his… ( Read on! )