Apr 03 2013
If you are too well connected, you stop thinking. The clamour, the immediacy, the tendency to absorb other people’s thoughts, interrupt the deep abstraction required to find your own way. This is one of the reasons why I have not yet bought a smartphone. But the technology is becoming ever harder to resist. Perhaps this year I will have to succumb. So I have asked a simple question: can I buy an ethical smartphone?
Mar 29 2013
The novena is promoted by “Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)“, who is a Pontifical Foundation dependent on the Congregation for the Clergy in Rome in conformity with the provisions of Canon Law.
Feb 15 2013
Summary
Jan 16 2013
When Rwandan-backed rebels recently took Goma, the biggest city in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Paul Kagame had every reason to think the world would give him a pass. That, after all, has been the pattern for years.
Jan 15 2013
CONTENTS
a. The agenda for the talks
b. The M23’s demands
c. The government’s response
Jan 15 2013
CONTENTS:
a. Towards a new, more robust strategy?
b. New sanctions
Jan 03 2013
Copied to the States, Institutions, Agencies and International Organisations:
Dear brothers and sisters, Citizens of the World, Leaders, Rulers, Heads of Governments, Institutions and International Missions, Bosses of companies, Businessmen, Researchers, Men of culture, Film-makers, Journalists, Lawyers, Doctors…
To you all, men and women who give one minute of your time to listen to us, Since the month of April 2012, North Kivu has been facing a serious crisis as a result of the insurrection of certain elements of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, insurrection that has been transformed later on into an aggression of the DRC.
And since then, a humanitarian crisis has followed with 1 million or so of internally displaced people and about 100.000 Congolese forced to cross the borders either with Rwanda or Uganda.
Sometimes without substantial assistance, these men, women, children and old people innocently die, some on their wandering ways and others in their places of concentration often resulting from the lack of efficient care.
Dec 20 2012
SUMMARY:
a. Report
b. Assessment
Dec 15 2012
CONTENTS:
a. Chronicle of a farce
b. Beyond farce
a. For and against talks in Kampala
b. The context of a difficult dialogue
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