PROSPECTS 2011: East Africa and the Great Lakes - click link for full article.

Eastern DRC. In addition, EAC members will be affected by continued insecurity in the eastern DRC:

FDLR. The ethnic Hutu Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) remain a serious threat, despite having been significantly weakened by a series of recent ( Read more... )

Remarks

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

At the 10th Anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325

On Women, Peace and Security

October 26, 2010

United Nations Headquarters

New York, New York

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I've been hearing about AFRICOM for some time now - the US mission to set up a military presence in Africa.  From the little I know, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, president of Liberia, has been courting the US to some extent in hopes that Liberia will be chosen as the home location for AFRICOM.  Ghana rejected the idea, and for now, the base remains in ( Read more... )

Ow. I just touched the bruise on my leg from some random military guy's gun ( Read more... )

The next couple weeks are going to be difficult, but I want to let you all know that even when I am not commenting on your journals, I am trying to keep up on reading. I haven't been able to post much lately because we are working our tails off to meet a deadline, and are simultaneously being told to be out of the office by 6pm, which is cramping ( Read more... )