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Burundian teachers have stood down from yet another strike, but this is not a conflict that will go away easily
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Burundi: Helping brothers and sisters find each other | ICRC
In the chaos and violence of conflict, loved ones often get separated. This video shows the work of a Burundi Red Cross volunteer helping families to find each other.
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Researching sexual violence in the armed conflict of eastern DRC | congo research network
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Why businesses should assess human rights impacts from the outset of projects. SOCO International Oil Company in Virunga National Park, DRC | IPIS Insights
SOCO International, a British oil company, is prospecting for oil in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park – a World Heritage Site. For the past year, their presence has been criticised for putting a fragile environment at risk. However, more recently, their impact on human rights has also been questioned. Below, IPIS looks at why it is so vital for companies to employ rights-respectful processes, such as those advised in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, from the very beginning of the prospection stage.
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Considered an overview, this piece combines a wide range of events, observations, and consequent thoughts on the current situation in the eastern DRC. Focussing on M23 rebels, DRC government, and the UN mission it will also take into account main other dynamics and actors.
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Jeffrey-gettlemans profile of Paul Kagame | Africa is a country
Jeffrey Gettleman, East Africa Bureau Chief for the New York Times, has written a feature article for the paper's Sunday Magazine focusing on Rwanda's long-standing president, Paul Kagame, and by extension the country. (The piece has been online since Monday.) While Gettleman has largely focused on covering stories of violence, war, and conflict in East and Central Africa, often making wide sweeping claims and generalizations about African politics (and erring on the side of "ethnographic porn" for Western audiences), this time he takes a slightly different direction.
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Why has Tanzania deported thousands to Rwanda? | BBC News
Several thousand "illegal immigrants" have been expelled from Tanzania to Rwanda in the past month, which some are linking to a recent row between the two governments, as the BBC's Prudent Nsengiyumva reports.
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East African agriculture and climate change | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Agriculture is essential to the economies of East African countries. Climate change, with its effects on temperature and precipitation, threatens this important economic activity.
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Israels uganda plan | Africa is a country
Last month we blogged about the revelation that a number of African countries (dubbed "third countries") are on the verge of signing an agreement with Israel to absorb African asylum seekers currently in Israel. These asylum seekers were mostly from Sudan and Eritrea and could not be sent there, so Israel was looking for "third countries" to take them. In return, Israel offered the new host countries "benefit packages" that include weapons and other arms. On Thursday, the Israeli paper Haaretz reported that the "third country" is Uganda, and an agreement has been signed. According to Haaretz, Israel refuses to expose the details of that agreement but as far as it knows, the country would fund the flights of "immigrants to Uganda and their absorption there." Haaretz also reported that the Israeli government would also provide deportees with a grant-about $1500.
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Dispatches: Shoot-to-Kill, all Over Again, in Uganda | Human Rights Watch
Uganda’s police force recently announced that the “Flying Squad,” a new unit tasked to fight violent crime, had instructions to shoot-to-kill robbers. Activists were right to quickly point out that this is a clear violation of presumption of innocence and violates Uganda’s constitution
