The crisis that has been affecting the Greater Kasai region for more than a year has had dramatic consequences on the populations: more than 1.5 million people have been displaced and 35,000 people have taken refuge in neighboring Angola. This crisis, although it is rooted in specific local tensions, seems to catalyze several dynamics which are affecting the country as a whole today.
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↑1 | Place where initiation rituals take place. |
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↑2 | Among these deaths, we find members of the Armed Forces of DR Congo (FARDC), Congolese National Police (PNC), National Intelligence Agency (ANR), agents of the General Directorate of Migration (DGM) and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI). |
↑3 | United Nations report, August 2017, points 51 to 62. |
↑4 | United Nations report, August 2017, point 14. |
↑5 | United Nations report, August 2017, points 35 to 50. |
↑6 | The period between the end of reserves from the previous harvest and the availability of products from the following harvest is called the “hunger gap”. |
↑7 | MIBA (Bakwanga Mining) is a diamond producing company. The SNCC (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer du Congo) allowed the transportation of the goods. |
↑8 | See on this subject theanalysis of the Justice and Peace Commission on the elections, December 2017. |
↑9 | On December 11, 2017, 15 MONUSCO peacekeepers were killed and more than 50 others injured during an armed attack in one of their bases in Semuliki (North Kivu) – Source: The world |
↑10 | The UDPS is one of the main opposition parties. |
↑11 | See on this subject theanalysis of the Justice and Peace Commission on the elections, December 2017. |
↑12 | We think, for example, of the conflict in Ecuador in 2010-2011 which had its origins in a fishing issue and which created more than 200,000 refugees, but also more recently in Tanganyika, the Kivus... |