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Alex Engwete is a Congolese-American who lives in Kinshasa (DRC) and Washington, DC. Outrage at injustices is what usually stirs him into blogging in French or in English. He likes Congolese beers and drinks "Samuel Adams" while in the United States. A failed anthropologist, he's a self-made cultural reader.
Saturday, December 12, 2009 What's being occulted at COP 15: Fish Wars, Hydraulic conflicts, Water Wars- Climate change wars have already begun (3 comments)
Fish war triggering ethnic cleansing in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo; access to shrinking water and land resources in Kenya and Angola exacerbating interethnic and intercommunal conflicts; these are flashpoints of the hydraulic conflicts, water wars or climate change wars that have begun already in Africa.
Friday, November 9, 2007 Sexual Terrorism: Bureaucratic Realism vs. Academic Word-mongering Malpractice (2 comments)
This article describes how two obscure USAID female bureaucrats identified, defined, and described the phenomenon they termed as "sexual terrorism" in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)while male African scholars couldn't satisfactorily give a coherent account of the phenomenon.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 The 1997 U.S.-sanctioned counter-genocide of Hutu refugees in DRC (1 comments)
This piece takes a spin from an earlier OPEDNEWS article by Georgianne Nienaber on the reopening of the probe by the UN High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCR)on the counter-genocide of Hutu by Rwandan and Laurent Kabila's Tutsi-dominated rebel troops in 1997 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 CISSA Workshop in Kigali (Rwanda) : A buzzing beehive
This article takes a critical look at the 5-day workshop of the "Committee of Intelligence and Security Services of Africa" (CISSA) that starts in Kigali (Rwanda) on Monday November 5, 2007.
Sunday, November 4, 2007 Chad should release Zoe's Ark Personnel
This piece addresses the scandal of the French fake humanitarian group Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark)whose members are in custody in Chad for the alleged abduction of more than 100 children supposedly from the Darfur.
Thursday, November 1, 2007 While Congo is being destroyed, America has other African fads (5 comments)
This article describes the harrowing situation in eastern Congo and the general indifference of the American public to the plight of the Congolese people.
