Something cooking in eastern DR Congo could shake the world one of these days

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International and African media reliably give a lot of coverage to United Nations Group of Experts reports on the devastating and drawn-out conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and other documents released mainly by Western organisations.

There is one that they ignore: the “Security Situation in Eastern DRC Report” by the non-governmental organisation Never Again Rwanda (NAR), based in Kigali.