Chrispin Mvano
Analysis

Meanwhile In Goma…Withdrawal Of M23 And Kampala ‘Negotiations’

The day Goma fell to the M23 I was on my way there, having planned to take a boat to Eastern Congo's largest city on November 20th from Bukavu. Eventually I had to travel to Kinshasa through Bujumbura and Nairobi. Three weeks later, the flights from the capital to the east have become normalised again.
Gie Goris
News

The future of rice

Indonesia has always maintained a safe distance from the global rice market, thus escaping recent food price crises. And yet this autumn, a container of organic rice from Java arrived in the Belgian market.
News

Kabila in Catch22 with M23

The rebellion of M23, the way Rwanda has supported it and the fact that Goma has been taken, throws the peace process back several years. The Congolese elections of 2006 and 2011 initiated a slow and gradual evolution in which Congolese politics became an area for politicians rather than for soldiers, rebels and warlords. Diplomacy had replaced arm ...
VN
Opinion

Goma Falls To The M23: A Tale Of War, Rebellion And Dreadful Peace Agreements

On Thursday November 15th 'M23' – the rebellion movement which was created earlier this year – launched a major attack on the city of Goma which, after a quieter day on Friday, culminated in a very stressful weekend. The question on Sunday evening was: will or will they not take Goma. On Monday they did. These are thoughts compiled throughout the l ...
Gie Goris
News

Rwanda's economic challenges

Rwanda is under heavy international criticism for its alleged support to the M23 rebels in Congo. Major donors such as the United States have threatened with suspending or reducing assistance, which would immediately lead to economic woes. Gie Goris visited the country of a thousand hills to better understand the country’s economic agenda and the c ...
News

Karel De Gucht, European Commissioner for Trade: "More inequality through free trade? I don’t believe it"

For some time now, Karel De Gucht has been a true believer in the benefits of free trade. This view is still apparent when we met in the Berlaymont building, the European Commission’s headquarters and where he, as Commissioner for Trade, holds office.
News

Medical migration as the answer to growing health care needs in Europe

Fifteen Filipino nurses have just started a new career in Melsbroek, Ghent and Antwerp. That’s after they waited two and a half years to get a Flemish work permit. Why do they look for a job 10,500 kilometres from home? We went to Manila to find out.
Lectrr
News

Belgian diplomat suspected of espionage

The Belgian ministry of Foreign Affairs has called back a Belgian diplomat from his post in Copenhagen on the suspicion of espionage. Consul O.G. from Bruges, who during 25 years had been in contact with the Russian secret services KGB and SVR, was suspended ‘in the interest of the service’. The Federal prosecutor’s office has launched a judicial i ...
Alfredo Jaar
News

MO*lecture Alfredo Jaar & Katerina Gregos

The Newtopia-event in Mechelen states a very clear relationship between art and human rights, and in a broader sense between artistic creation and political action. The main exhibition Newtopia brings the work of Alfredo Jaar in a satellite expo to the ING Cultural Centre in Brussels from 10th October until 10th December. Title of the expo is Let T ...
Friends of Europe
Analysis

‘A revolution takes time’

Marwan Bishara, political analist of Al-Jazeera English, and producer and host of Empire, a programme that discusses world leaders and their agendas, was one of the prominent guests at the Friends of Europe congress on the Arab Spring. For Bishara, the Arab Spring is first and foremost a political revolution of consciousness. “The revolutionary see ...
News

MO*lecture with Jacqueline McGlade and Joachim Spangenberg: A Green Economy within the Limits of Our Planet

Our ecological footprint reaches far beyond what planet Earth can sustain, and if our Western model of consumption and production continues to inspire people from China to Brasil, we will soon need ten planets. Still, the official discourse at the Rio+20 Conference was all about growth. Green growth, admittedly, but growth all the same.
Gie Goris
News

“The UN provides the necessary legitimacy”

In sixteen UN peace and reconstruction missions around the world, there are some 120.000 men and women at work.‘A real UN army does not exist’, says Marco Bianchini, head of the UN liaison Office for Peace and Security in Brussels. The growing need to prevent or control conflicts on the international stage results in complex UN missions   ...

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