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...famine and disease have killed more than 5 million Congolese citizens in the past decade and it's hard not to lay a good part of the blame at the feet of rebel leader Laurent Nkunda...
...Nkunda is the leader of a group of rebels who have been fighting the Congolese army and other militias off and on since 1998, creating violent upheaval in the eastern province of the country where between 100,000 and 200,000 people have been driven from their homes in the recent weeks. (Between 1 and 2 million have been displaced since 2007 in the region.) Despite several attempts at cease-fires, peace agreements and negotiations between his group and the democratically elected government, Nkunda has refused to lay down his arms since he formed his rebel faction...
...Congolese government sketched out an agreement where rebels and militias would join together in a national army. Nkunda was eventually offered the post of general, but instead defected; he has been fighting for the disarmament of Rwandan Hutus in eastern Congo ever since. Despite the 2006 election of a democratic government - not to mention the presence of 18,000 United Nations peacekeepers - efforts to achieve peace have been stymied, in part, because of Nkunda's resistance. His rebel group recently took over a national park that's a sanctuary for endangered gorillas, forcing park rangers to flee. Human Rights Watch...
Linoleum floors, white walls, and random posters pulled from roommates’ recycling bins may suffice for most students’ nine-month dorm stint. But there are some who rebel against college dorm norm. These students put their creativity to work and transform lifeless, Harvard-issued rooms into havens for the academic year...
...expose the regime for the crimes it had committed." International pressure and defections from his own cadres slowly forced Gayoom to change tack and speak of democratic reform. Ibrahim Hussein Zaki served for ten years as a minister in Gayoom's cabinet, but quit to help found the rebel Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) in November 2003 alongside Nasheed. "I realized that change could never come from within. This was a family regime, not the people's regime," he told TIME...