A recent report issued by the American Medical Association (AMA) has had me and SOS

When I think about all of the lessons I have learned in three years in

Anyone doubting the gravity of the situation women in eastern Congo face and the constant

I recently arrived back in Bujumbura after a productive, albeit dusty and tiring, séjour in

This evening, I returned home from my most recent series of planning meetings with AP’s

I arrived last week to Uvira, South Kivu, in order to participate in a marathon

After an absence that ran far too long, I am happy to be back in

[Rather than write three separate entries concerning three recent items of note in Uvira, I

One of the more frustrating aspects of working in the regions of Congo currently under

Yesterday, I was traveling to Lubarika, a small village on Uvira’s Haut Plateau. The Haut

Where in the world is the FDLR? That seems to be the question going around

Of all the empty promises which led to the 2006 election of current president Joseph

My border crossings in Congo have become rather intricate afffairs with the complexity of the

As I have been writing recently about the Mai-Mai militias in North and South Kivu,

Tomorrow is the yearly independence celebration across Congo, commemorating the end of Belgian rule and

This last Wednesday, I was fortunate to visit one of Arche d’Alliance’s ongoing programs in

This last Tuesday, the 16th of June, communities across sub-Saharan Africa remembered the massacres of

A walk through Uvira’s most heavily militarized zone (not counting rebel/Mai-Mai areas) directly south of

*Sorry for the delay in updating the blog if you’ve been following it, but I

In Congo, there is nothing like a presidential visit to give evidence as to why

For the last three days, I have been working in outside of Bukavu (north of

This last week, I have been in Fizi Territory, which is the province directly south

Visit Congo for even a day, and you will see that one of the dominant

After weeks of nervous waiting, I recently got the good news that a colleague of

The last month has been busy as usual, and I was actually fortunate enough to

“When Congo shakes, Africa trembles.” If you are interested in reading more about Congo’s “linchpin”

Given the history of eastern Congo, it is not surprising that Congolese are overwhelmingly honest

The red oval represents the amount of territory in eastern Congo which is threatened should

Speaking with my friend Celestin tonight, I could tell despite the static-filled connection that his

I wanted to write a quick word about one of Arche d’Alliance’s programs which I

Today (I am writing this Sunday, October 19) the MJA kids had a match against

As I left Congo last January, the thoughts of everyone across North and South Kivu

The view from one house built in the Uvira mountains. In North and South Kivu,

In the development and humanitarian aid fields, statistics can be a rather depressing reminder of

I am very excited to be back in Uvira again, and am quickly getting acclimated