Donnybrook at Kinshasa University

(Scorched patch of grass at Kinshasa University where cops burned academic gowns and caps used by students for banned commencement on Saturday, January 12, 2013)***There is no other waycto look at the small donnybrook that pitted Kinshasa University students against heavily-armed cops and anti-riot police on Saturday, January 12: both academic authorities and students couldn't have stooped lower. In contention was the commencement for the 2012 class.I...

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Enter South African National Defence Force... where François Hollande mocked Africa!

(PHOTO: "South African Soldiers during a two-week leadershipcontinuation training exercise called Revelation II, held at the TouwsRiver Training Area in February 2010.")***For the life of me, I never understood the rationale French so-called"normal" President François Hollande had, in response to frantic callsfor help from beleaguered Central African Republic (CAR) PresidentFrançois Bozizé, in blurting out to French journos on December 26,2012:"If...

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How DRC Military Intelligence nabbed the three murderers of Gen. Bikweto "Biki" Tuyinabo

(A Belgian army issue Browning handgun similar to the one Gen. Bikwetoused to shoot and wound one of his murderers)***It was a sad today in Kinshasa for those of us, alumni of the 10thPromition of the then Belgian-organized Ecole de Formation d'Officers(EFO), at Kananga, in the Orientale Kasai Province; and the relativesand friends of Gen. Bikweto "Biki" Tuyinabo, cowardly gunned down onChristmas Eve.After laying in state at the proving ground of...

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Rogue MP Roger Lumbala materializes in Kampala as Vice-President of M23 delegation

(PHOTO: Rogue MP and M23 wannabe Roger Lumbala)***Rogue MP Roger Lumbala, who was arrested in Bujumbura back in earlySeptember of last year as he was deplaning from a flight from Kigalion suspicion of collaboration with M23, has finally materialized inKampala as the so-called "vice-president" of the M23 delegation in thetalks between the DRC government and the Rwandan insurgent stoogeswreaking havoc in North Kivu.This eerie reapperance of Lumbala,...

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