Étiqueté : brink

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Democratic Republic of Congo: a nation on the brink

On January 21, Therese Kapangala, a 24-year-old Congolese woman studying to be a nun, left her home in Kinshasa to attend church in the Commune of Kintambo. Therese never returned home. She was shot by security forces outside her church, just after Sunday mass. The bullet entered her arm and went to her heart. She died on…

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Is Ukraine on the level of one other Maidan?

It has been four years since Ukrainians took to the streets to call for corruption-free democratic governance and rule of law. Today, with the European project in dire straits, the demand of the Maidan protesters – to move Ukraine out of the orbit of Putin’s Russia and « join » the family of European democracies to which it…