Zaire, a Country in Crisis
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 96
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9789171065384
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 66
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than five years, the people of Zaire have struggled to survive in a state on the brink of utter collapse. Amid growing economic disarray and infrastructural breakdown, standards of living have plummeted, moral and ethical standards have withered, and violence has risen. Political authority is almost hopelessly fragmented and discredited. The massive inflow and outflow of Hutu refugees from Rwanda has exacerbated Zaire's multifaceted predicament, a predicament that, for political and economic as well as humanitarian reasons, the international community cannot ignore. But what practical steps can and should be taken by the international community, and which actors (individual governments, multilateral organizations, or NGOs) should take them? In the search for answers to these questions, and for an accurate portrait of the extent and nature of Zaire's malaise, Minority Rights Group (USA), supported by the United States Institute of Peace and the Carnegie Corporation, initiated a project in 1995 that brought together academics, government officials, and NGO experts to consider the case of Zaire and the prospects for effective preventive diplomacy there. This two-part report presents the results of this project: part I offers a broad-ranging examination of Zaire's predicament; part II presents three suggestions for preventive action to ameliorate Zaire's problems.
Author: Astri Suhrke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1351477676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Great Lakes region of Africa has seen dramatic changes. After a decade of war, repression, and genocide, loosely allied regimes have replaced old-style dictatorships. The Path of a Genocide examines the decade (1986-97) that brackets the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. This collection of essays is both a narrative of that event and a deep reexamination of the international role in addressing humanitarian issues and complex emergencies.Nineteen donor countries and seventeen multilateral organizations, international agencies, and international nongovernmental organizations pooled their efforts for an in-depth evaluation of the international response to the conflict in Rwanda. Original studies were commissioned from scholars from Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopia, Norway, Great Britain, France, Canada, and the United States. While each chapter in this volume focuses on one dimension of the Rwanda conflict, together they tell the story of this unfolding genocide and the world's response.The Path of a Genocide offers readers a perspective in sharp contrast to the tendency to treat a peace agreement as the end to conflict. This is a detailed effort to make sense of the political crisis and genocide in Rwanda and the effects it had on its neighbors.
Author: F. Ngolet
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-12-14
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 0230116256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a comprehensive history and analysis of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the tumultuous period of 1997 - 2001. The author examines the most recent events in this turbulent region, offering a contemporary account that is both extensive and detailed.
Author: Jason Stearns
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2012-03-27
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1610391594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA "meticulously researched and comprehensive" (Financial Times​) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's Great War.
Author: Thomas Paul Odom
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Janet MacGaffey
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1991-11-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780812213652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJanet MacGaffey examines the case of Zaire where, according to the published statistics, wages are at starvation level, production is declining and the infrastructure is falling apart. The center is increasingly held by "system D," the second economy, whose activities, often illegal, take place outside the official economy.
Author: James Bell
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-03-18
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781500519612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBelgian Congo 1960. A time of great upheaval and uncertainty at the height of the Cold War, African independence movements, political assassinations, provincial secessions, the quest for pure uranium and white mercenary movements. A revolutionary time, largely forgotten today, that shaped the future of the world's most tragic country.