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...1990s. Do all those parties with a stake in the Congo conflict - from the government, to the rebels, to the U.N. and a host of peripheral western powers - have the will to settle on a deal? And do they have the will to confront the government of Rwanda, a country scarred by its 1994 genocide, which has given sympathy - and, many suspect, military support - to the rebels? The fighters claim to be protecting ethnic Tutsis from some of the same Hutu militias responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus during the Rwanda genocide. Both Hutu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo Quagmire Finally Grabs the World's Attention | 11/1/2008 | See Source »

Whether the diplomats agree with that sentiment is unclear. The foreign ministers of Britain, Belgium and France all headed to DRC and planned to meet with the president, Joseph Kabila. They were then to travel to Rwanda for meetings with President Paul Kagame. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Jendayi Frazer passed through Goma on Friday before visiting Rwanda. On Friday, Kabila and Kagame agreed to attend a summit to try to resolve the issue. They have made similar promises before, but achieved little. And while experts say that efforts are underway, there are still no plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo Quagmire Finally Grabs the World's Attention | 11/1/2008 | See Source »

...also interviews a New York artist, Alfredo Jaar, who believes that only images of pain can still affect today’s viewer. In “The Eyes of Gutete Emerita,” Jaar forces viewers of his work to confront images of the genocide in Rwanda directly by placing one million slides on a lightbox. Tan’s most recent projects take the combination of image and identity one step further. In her 2005 work “Corrections,” she amassed 300 video portraits of prison inmates and workers, while...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Identities Caught on Film | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...them,” Marks said. “So history has not had time to judge. Day two of the conference will highlight the relationship between the conduct of these wars and the postcolonial landscape. Four more panels today will present on conflicts in Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Algeria, Rwanda and the Congo...

Author: By Evan Kendall, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Probes Post-Colonial War | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...self-described devout Pentecostal Christian and sometimes wears a pin that says, "Rebels for Christ." He says he prays every day and claims many of his soldiers have converted to the faith. •He is a native of North Kivu, an eastern Congolese province that shares a border with Rwanda. •He is almost always photographed in a military outfit, wearing sunglases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Congolese Rebel Leader Laurent Nkunda | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

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