Vol 47 No 2 | RWANDABELGIUM Death in the canal 20th January 2006 On 17 December, a naked and mutilated corpse turned up in a Brussels canal. Five days later, after DNA tests, it was identified as that of Juvénal Uwingiliyimana,...
Vol 46 No 5 | TANZANIABELGIUM Belgium's bullet points 4th March 2005 Tanzania is getting a new ammunition factory thanks to George Forrest International, a firm whose eponymous main shareholder has big interests in Congo-Kinshasa and has told United Nations...
Vol 45 No 21 | CONGO-KINSHASABELGIUM Pig in a poke 22nd October 2004 Attempts to strengthen Congo's new integrated national army have met an unexpected obstacle. Five weeks' 'training the trainers' in Belgium was planned for 285 Congolese officers. But 16...
Vol 45 No 2 | TANZANIABELGIUM Gun law 23rd January 2004 Belgian-based Groupe George Forrest has energetically rejected reports by a United Nations panel of experts and international human rights groups criticising its mining operations in Congo-Kinshasa as exploitative...
Vol 44 No 18 | CONGO-KINSHASABELGIUM Not welcome 12th September 2003 Having arrested the former head of late President Mobutu Sese Seko's feared Garde Civile, General Kpama Baramoto Kata, Belgium can't find a country willing to take him. Baramoto...