11.17.2008 5:36 pm

Late-day news round-up: Pirate edition

Violence in Congo continues. Will this be another Darfur; another Rwanda?

Silence from both the Obama and Clinton camps. Remember, last week it was reported that President-elect Barack Obama asked Sen. Hillary Cltinon, his one-time rival, to be his secretary of state. Vetting of…

Tags: bailout, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Congo, darfur, Hillary Clinton, NASA, pirates, rwanda, somalia, space station

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11.09.2008 9:00 pm

Catastrophe in Congo. Again.

By Editorial Board

Fleeing the fighting outside Goma, North Kivu province of Congo (Walter Astrada/AFP/Getty Images)

For decades, much of the Western world has gone about its affairs without giving much thought to Africa.
How many Americans know, much less care, that since 1988, wars and…

Tags: Africa, Ban Ki-Moon, Barack Obama, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, FLDR, Goma, Joseph Kabila, Laurent Nkunda, MONUC, North Kivu, Paul Kagame, Rwandan genocide, U.N. peacekeepers, United Nations

Late-day news round-up: Pirate edition

Catastrophe in Congo. Again.

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