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		<title>The Tangled Tale of the Terminator: Why a Warlord Turned Himself In</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/22/the-tangled-tale-of-the-terminator-why-a-warlord-turned-himself-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Lloyd George</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Events have been swift for Bosco Ntaganda. The fugitive Congolese warlord unexpectedly showed up at the U.S. embassy in Kigali, Rwanda on Monday. Today, just four days after, he was escorted by officials of the International Criminal Courts from the embassy and put on a plane to The Hague, where he is wanted for crimes against humanity—including the recruitment of child soldiers, murder and the use of rape as a means of terrorizing civilian populations. An ICC official told TIME that within a week Ntanganda will face an initial hearing on the charges. His trial will start within five months. It is a surprising end for a warlord nicknamed “The Terminator” who has come to represent impunity across the world, impervious to arrest despite the gravity of his crimes and a U.S. bounty of $5 million bounty for his arrest, Ntaganda has lived a seemingly cosy life, profiting from several mining operations in the region, and frequenting the finest bars and hotels eastern Congo has to offer. At times, he would slip eastward across the border to neighboring Rwanda, with no one lifting a finger to apprehend him. (MORE: Congo’s Eastern Rebels Seize Goma: Will Rwanda Then Take Over?) And then, Ntaganda appeared to run out of luck. On Monday, at 7:30am, Ntaganda turned up at the gates of the U.S. embassy in Kigali and asked “shocked” staff to be transferred to the International Crime Court. The high fenced compound then became Ntaganda&#8217;s home as the U.S. worked out the practicalities of flying him to The Hague. “It is an important moment because he is the first to voluntary surrender himself,” ICC official Fadi El-Abdallah told TIME. “Now his victims can begin to participate in the trial.” While details of why Ntaganda ended up at the US embassy remain murky, the beginning of his downfall can be traced back to the November 2011 elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). That vote saw President Joseph Kabila win a second term amid allegations of fraud. Seeking ways to appease an increasingly<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=77308&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congo’s &#8216;Mamas&#8217; and Their Campaign Against Wartime Rape</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/30/congos-mamas-and-their-campaign-against-wartime-rape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Hatcher / Minova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeanette Bindu’s network in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has just informed her of a mass rape in Minova — more than 100 women within just four days. Thousands of government troops have fled the provincial capital of Goma in the face of an advance by the M23 rebels, and on Nov. 22 the government soldiers arrived on the small town of Minova, 54 km to the west. The rapes started immediately. Bindu, who runs a network of 36 women monitoring rape across the region, wants to know more. So taking a TIME reporter with her, she jumps in her car, navigates the 54 km of barely paved roads and checkpoints manned by drunken militiamen to reach Minova. &#8220;Every time, it&#8217;s the women that these conflicts affect the most,&#8221; she says. U.N. Special Representative Margot Wallstrom has called Congo the &#8220;rape capital of the world,&#8221; and a 2011 study in the American Journal of Public Health estimated 48 women are raped every hour in the country. Many argue that rape is systemic in Congo, fueled by a brutal logic in which — amid a bewildering array of conflicts fought between a mosaic of militias, rebels and the national army — intimidation and cruelty is seen as one way to win. The number of rapes rockets when the shooting starts, as it did again this month. But it also means the international aid groups pull out. Which leaves 35-year-old Bindu’s grassroots network as the only ones left to monitor sexual violence and care for its victims. (MORE: Congo&#8217;s Eastern Rebels Seize Goma: Will Rwanda Then Take Over?) The women in Bindu’s network calls themselves &#8220;Mamas&#8221; and distinguish themselves with their children’s names. Bindu is Mama Joel. Mama Fahida, 62, is her informer in Minova, ferreting out information by pretending to be a preacher. When we arrive in Minova, Mama Fahida greets Bindu warmly and tells her she has identified 15 women who have been raped but will not come for treatment for fear of recrimination or rejection. Mama Fahida runs her own network of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=57417&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congo&#8217;s Crisis: Rebels Launch Offensive in Country&#8217;s East</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/20/m23-rebels-in-congos-east-capture-key-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Pereira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the war-torn, mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo, rebels belonging to an armed group known as the M23 have launched a devastating offensive against the government of President Joseph Kabila, capturing the main provincial capital of Goma in the country&#8217;s east, according to reports. Though denied by the Rwandan government, many believe the M23 is armed and backed by Rwanda, as regional governments jostle for influence and control over a part of the world blessed with teeming natural wealth but afflicted by decades of war and human-rights abuses.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=55481&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congo&#8217;s Eastern Rebels Seize Goma: Will Rwanda Then Take Over?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/20/congos-eastern-rebels-seize-goma-will-rwanda-then-takeover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I spent a few days with the M23 rebels of eastern Congo in August, they were clear that their April mutiny against the Congolese army and seizure of territory along the Rwandan and Ugandan borders was essentially a form of blackmail. The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its President Joseph Kabila were weak and corrupt, they said, and constantly tried to cheat, steal from or even kill men from the east — who, like most of the M23, were former rebels integrated into the national army after a similar rebellion in the east in 2009. The mutineers were hardly angels themselves, with a string of human-rights violations to their names, including the recruitment of children, use of rape and sometimes execution of civilians. But they maintained they didn&#8217;t necessarily want to take the strategic eastern cities of Goma or Bukavu and certainly didn&#8217;t want to advance on the capital, Kinshasa; rather they wanted the government to honor the integration deal it agreed to on March 23, 2009, and since it hadn&#8217;t — withholding salaries, integrating soldiers at lower ranks, even continuing to kill a few easterners — the rebels were trying to force it to by taking territory. (PHOTOS: M23 Rebels in Congo’s East Capture Key City) I asked: What if Kinshasa still refused to come up with the goods? They&#8217;d take Goma, a base for one of the world&#8217;s largest U.N. peacekeeping and aid operations, to up their bargaining position and press their point. &#8220;Taking Goma would not be a battle,&#8221; said Major Emille Shabani, who had defected from the Congolese army to the rebels a few days before. &#8220;The government soldiers are tired and they know no one will look after their families if they die.&#8221; That&#8217;s the broad scenario that appeared to have played out Tuesday as M23 rebels rolled into Goma unopposed by government forces, who fled precisely as the rebels predicted, and peacekeepers from Monusco, the Congo U.N. force, who simply watched. Though there had been some sporadic fighting on the outskirts<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=55419&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Story: TIME&#8217;s Alex Perry Discusses Rwandan President Paul Kagame</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/14/behind-the-story-times-alex-perry-discusses-rwandan-president-paul-kagame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you look at a map of Africa you could be forgiven for assuming that the actions of the President of the tiny, landlocked country of Rwanda are not hugely consequential on the international stage. After all, Rwanda is a country just 1% the size of its neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo. But Rwanda’s President, Paul Kagame, is a political actor of great importance for the whole continent. Most importantly, he is a key playmaker in the politics of central Africa. And it’s for his actions in that role that he is increasingly the target of criticism from the West, from organizations like Human Rights Watch to aid donors and governments, including those of the U.S. and Britain. Eighteen years after defeating the genocidal militias who murdered 800,000 fellow Rwandans, mostly of a different ethnicity from theirs, in 100 days, the perception of Kagame’s leadership among many Western officials and governments has shifted from one of a celebrated visionary to that of a calculating autocrat waging a proxy war in neighboring territories. The turning point came in June, when a U.N. report into Rwanda’s involvement in the ongoing conflict in eastern Congo directly accused the Rwandan military of backing a rebel group with an appalling human-rights record and whose leader has been indicted by the International Criminal Court on war-crimes charges. (MORE: Alex Perry&#8217;s Q&#38;A with President Kagame) TIME’s Africa bureau chief, Alex Perry, spent several hours with Kagame over five days in early August. In his magazine story (available to subscribers here), which is the cover of TIME in Africa this week, Perry asks a key question: Has the man once heralded around the world as a savior of his people turned into a despot who is fueling a war for his and his country’s own gain? But Perry asks other important questions also, about the West’s own troubling history in Africa and its complicated relationship with a continent whose economic and political power is growing every year. Before he could sit down with Kagame, however, Perry first set about seeing for<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=44859&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congo Unrest: Clashes with Rebels Spark Refugee Exodus</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/07/26/congo-unrest-clashes-with-rebels-spark-refugee-exodus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 200,000 civilians have had to flee their homes and several hundred fighters have been killed in recent clashes between rebels and Congolese government forces. Reports of support for rebel fighters from neighboring Rwanda have stoked fears yet again of an escalating regional conflict.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=37299&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Rwanda Backing Rebels Led by a War Criminal in Congo?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/06/29/is-rwanda-backing-rebels-led-by-a-war-criminal-in-congo/</link>
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		<dc:creator>Tristan McConnell / Nairobi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mounting evidence that Rwanda is supplying arms and recruits to a rebellion led by an indicted war criminal in the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.) is the latest indication that, in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, President Paul Kagame’s government will ensure its own security and interests even to the detriment of its neighbors and in defiance of international law. Rwanda’s relations with Congo are defined by the genocide, in which 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered by Hutu death squads. In the face of international inaction, Kagame, then-leader of a Tutsi-dominated rebel army, beat back the genocidaires, many of whom fled to Congo with millions of Hutu refugees, where they were sheltered in camps set up by international aid groups. For Kagame and the Rwandan government, the legacy of that experience—of genocide and international apathy, then the injustice of seeing the perpetrators still at large and benefitting from foreign assistance in Congo—was formative. Not only could Rwanda not rely on an international community that had proved itself so irrelevant in Rwanda&#8217;s hour of need, the country decided it would henceforth disregard international will if it felt its security was threatened.  (VIDEO: 10 Questions for Paul Kagame) At home, that prompted Kagame to propagate an ideology of laudable self-reliance. Aid was only accepted if humanitarian groups allowed themselves to be absorbed into government programs and private enterprise—this policy, not foreign donations, would be Rwanda&#8217;s path out of poverty. The result has been spectacular economic growth over the last decade that, at times, has outdone China. Abroad, however, that same dogged guarding of Rwanda&#8217;s national interests prompted Kagame to repeatedly intervene in Congo, supporting Tutsi-dominated militias in their fight against Hutu Rwandans and, on several occasions, sending the Rwandan army over the border, as well. Kagame argues that such aggressive foreign policy was necessary to prevent a recurrence of Africa&#8217;s Holocaust. While that desire is undeniably understandable, there is no doubt also that Rwanda&#8217;s interference in Congo sparked that country&#8217;s 1997-2003 civil war, in which tens of thousands were killed in fighting and millions more died from related hunger<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=33068&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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