http://www.rusi.org/ web@rusi.org en-us Copyright 2013 http://www.rusi.org/analysis/commentary/ref:C519659DB40673/ With troops assigned to the UN's new offensive unit in the DR Congo arriving in Goma, hopes for a tougher response to the region's non-state armed groups have been raised. Yet while novel, the deployment of the unit poses its own challenges. 2013-05-17 17:27:21 http://www.rusi.org/analysis/commentary/ref:C51223460690F6/ Long associated with the CIA's targeted killing programme, there are concerns that drones are a weapons system out of control. But a suggestion to deploy them on the UN mission in the Congo underscores the potential the system has in keeping the peace. 2013-02-18 14:07:21 http://www.rusi.org/publications/journal/ref:A50C76F33C6B1D/ Although primarily associated with women, the widespread use of mass rape against men, women and boys in the DRC effectively constitutes 'genocide by attrition' 2012-12-11 17:36:53 http://www.rusi.org/analysis/commentary/ref:C4F26A89015CE9/ Predictions of a 'sub-Saharan spring' in southern Africa have as yet proved unfounded, but elections in the DRCongo and Zimbabwe are proving to be risky in the current climate of domestic turmoil. 2012-01-30 14:40:56 http://www.rusi.org/analysis/commentary/ref:C497F5797BD5F0/ The remarkable alliance between the Rwanda and the Congo governments and the arrest of Laurent Nkunda offers hope for the future, but internationalising the conflict further may prove problematic. 2009-01-27 18:53:46 http://www.rusi.org/analysis/commentary/ref:C49622D9BA891C/ Congo is the third largest country in Africa and possesses vast mineral wealth, but its immense economic potential has never been realised. If Africa is gradually shaking off its image as ‘the hopeless continent’, today the Congo would still epitomise the ‘hopeless country’. 2009-01-05 16:00:07 http://www.rusi.org/analysis/commentary/ref:C49269D338D73D/ The Congo crisis is central Africa’s most complex and destructive conflict, and one for which there is no quick fix. Co-ordinated local, regional and international peace talks and humanitarian interventions are a starting point, but ultimately it is the people of the DRC who will have to resolve their country’s fundamental problems. 2008-11-21 11:42:00