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http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21204861 Matonge: Congo-Rwanda dispute hits heart of Europe By Dan Damon BBC World Service, Brussels 30 January 2013  Last updated at 04:10 There was violence in Brussels following the re-election of Joseph Kabila as Congolese president in 2011 Tensions between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are being played out among the diaspora communities - and perhaps nowhere more so than in one district of the Belgian capital. African grocers, dozens of hairdressers, and music and video stores line the streets of Matonge in Brussels. There is a Matonge in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa too. When Belgium was the colonial power, the Congolese who came to Brussels created a marketplace a little bit like home - although Matonge in Kinshasa is a lot livelier, and the weather is better. There is a substantial community of people from Central Africa living in the Brussels Matonge - including around 25,000 from DR Congo, many of w...

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http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/1677744/-/lbjfvdz/-/index.html Leaders postpone signing of DR Congo peace roadmap SHARE   BOOKMARK PRINT RATING UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (right) has a word with Rwanda President Paul Kagame (left) as South Sudanese President Salva Kiir looks on during the opening ceremony of the African Union summit on January 27, 2013 for the 20th Ordinary Session of The Assembly of the Heads of State and Government (OSOA) in Addis Ababa. AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA  By A Special Correspondent Posted  Monday, January 28  2013 at  17:16 IN SUMMARY Signing ceremony was to be presided over by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the African Union (AU) headquarters in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the two-day AU summit. The roadmap was to be signed by the presidents of Rwanda, Uganda, the DRC, Angola, Burundi, the Republic of Congo, South Africa and Tanzania AU representative said the postponement will...

http://www.kashambuzi.com/blog/1057-troubling-developments-in-the-great-lakes-region.html Troubling developments in the Great Lakes region Written by  Eric Kashambuzi, on 28-01-2013 08:26   Views 31 Favoured None It has been difficult to fully understand the nature and causes of conflicts in the Great Lakes region because much information is kept away from public view or distorted in favor of Nilotic Tutsi and against Bantu Hutu. A combination of geopolitical conflicts over Great Lake's resources in collaboration with Tutsi, anti-sectarian laws in Uganda and Rwanda and reporting the region largely since 1994 in the wake of Rwanda genocide has left many things unsaid like the fact that Tutsi committed genocide against Hutu in Burundi in 1965, 1972, 1988 and 1993 as recorded by Lemarchand (1994) and reported by Patrick Duport in the undated paper titled "The Sub-regional context of the crises in Rwanda and Burundi". Evidence is turning up that RPA (Rwanda Patriotic Army...

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