"Today, however, simple solutions for the Congo are hard to come by. The conflict has transformed trade networks, social hierarchies, mentalities, and political structures—there is no one strand of this cat’s cradle that can be tugged to collapse it. The challenges facing Congolese are generational.![]()
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The stirrings of a new political consciousness can, however, be felt. The youth movement, LUCHA, was created almost exactly 10 years ago by youths in Goma as a new form of mobilization. It refused foreign financial support, created a flat organizational structure with consensual decision-making, and focused on the bread-and-butter issues of governance: water, electricity, and security. Their main actions were visible, popular protests in front of state institutions. After the protests, they would pick up trash and sweep the streets. “We want to show people that politics is not about access to power, that it is about serving others, about caring,” Luc Nkulula, one of their leaders who shortly afterwards died tragically in a fire, told me. This may be exactly what the Congo needs."![]()
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The war that doesn’t say its name
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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo conflict, as well as peacemaking, have become ends in themselves, while the fighting is carried forward by its own momentum.
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"Insecurity may have started without me, but it will not end without me.” ![]()
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The student committee of the Bilingual Christian University of Congo (UCBC) organized a cultural activity this Saturday in Beni under the theme: "Insecurity may have started without me, but it will not end without me.” Several activities were on the agenda, including expositions, slams, poems, and many more in order to raise awareness among university youth about the role they have to play in the quest for peace in the DRC and in the Beni region in particular.”![]()
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Due to continued surges in insecurity over the last few years there are an estimated 5.3 million Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs) in Congo and 700,000 in Beni Territory alone, many of whom are women and children and particularly vulnerable to recruitment to armed groups and/or drug abuse.![]()
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CI programs have provided trauma counseling, basic need assistance, and vocational training so that these young people can experience healing, become self-sustainable, and improve their livelihoods even as they wait in hope to return home. #worldrefugeemonth #Congo #hope
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