Global Issues: Changing Nature of Conflict ~ Congo

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been ravaged by war for nearly two decades. The largest UN peacekeeping mission in history based in the country is now being asked to leave. Although conflicts such as Iraq and Afghanistan tend to garner more active focus as illustrations of how the nature of conflict is changing, the conflict in the Congo should not be forgotten as it is a particularly nasty and protracted conflict which clearly exhibits most features of ‘new warfare’.

The Newstatesman carries quite a lenghty pice, but well worth the read, called: Letter from the Congo