Climate Change Adds to East Africa’s Food Plight

By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network Dec 20, 2013 Climate change poses a serious threat to farming in East Africa, a region that depends on agriculture and whose population is growing very fast. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Circumcision Gadget Is Easier and Safer, but Does It Hurt?

Staff / Truthdig Aug 8, 2011 It has been shown that heterosexual men are significantly less likely to spread HIV when they are circumcised. Rwanda hopes to circumcise 2 million men across the spectrum of ages using a new device that promises to be cheaper, safer and easier than alternatives. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.N.-Backed Congolese Troops Accused of Rape

Staff / Truthdig Oct 15, 2010 Rebel militias in the Democratic Republic of the Congo carried out mass rapes in the eastern part of the country in July and August Now UN-backed Congolese "peacekeeping" troops are being accused of murdering and raping villagers in the same area So who are the good guys, again?. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Dropping the G-Word

Staff / Truthdig Aug 27, 2010 Seven years after a decade-long spate of violence in the Congo, a leaked U draft report on the slaughter of tens of thousands of ethnic Hutus by Rwandan soldiers tepidly says that the horrific mass killings may possibly constitute genocide . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Africa’s Good Friend

Gbemisola Olujobi / Truthdig Feb 28, 2009 Linda, a 24-year-old sex worker in Kigali, Rwanda, didn’t want to be tested for HIV because she feared she would find she would soon die. Her fear was not unfounded. Being aware of one’s HIV-positive status was a first step toward dying of AIDS in Rwanda, as in most parts of Africa. Anti-retroviral drugs were expensive and hard to come by. But that was before President Bush's PEPFAR. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

David Rieff on ‘Africa’s World War’

BLANK Feb 6, 2009 Why does the Darfur violence arouse outrage but the slaughter of millions more in Congo does not? An indispensable new book by Gerard Prunier attempts an answer by combining cool analysis and scholarly dispassion without losing sight of the horror of its subject. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Congolese Ethnic Violence Worsens

Staff / Truthdig Oct 31, 2008 The chaos in the Democratic Republic of Congo escalated Friday as a refugee camp of 50,000 people reportedly was looted and burned, probably by Tutsi rebel groups. The violence is rooted in the colonial ethnic divisions that led to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S., France Slammed for Murder in Historical Inquiries

Staff / Truthdig Aug 8, 2008 "Democracy Now!" reported Thursday on two separate stories that show being a Western democracy hardly makes you immune to serious allegations of war crimes In one, the radio/TV show reports the conclusion by South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission that the US military indiscriminately killed large groups of South Korean civilians during the Korean War The other reviews the detailed new report by the Rwandan government that says the French military trained the murderous Interahamwe militia, key to the country's 1994 genocide [Transcripts & A/V]. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Rwanda Says France Participated in Genocide

Staff / Truthdig Aug 6, 2008 After two years of investigation, a Rwandan commission has accused France of facilitating the 1994 genocide by training Hutu militias and providing support to the Hutu government. The commission also says French forces murdered and raped Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The French government has consistently denied involvement in the genocide, in which 800,000 people were killed, but said it would look at the new report. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )