The Democratic Republic of the Congo remains a concern as big as its size on the map of Africa.
Alan Doss (picture), the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the MONUC, ignored repeated calls by Díaz de Villegas, Commander in Chief of the MONUC for a few week at the end of 2008, to suspend a “Plan of the Separation” signed by the government of Kinshasa days prior to Díaz de Villegas´s appointment.
Recent revelations by Díaz de Villegas suggest that it is not the last time we will hear about the MONUC in 2009. Díaz de Villegas is a former high-ranking military specialist in international missions. Apparently, from a military point of view, the plan is doomed. Alan Doss chose to use employ force to a degree that Díaz de Villegas considered unviable, unecessarily risky and counter-producing.
A blog claiming being written from Goma, in North Kivu, updates about new developments in Congo: http://stopthewarinnorthkivu.wordpress.com/. The FDLR slaughtered at least 100 Congolese civilians in Kivu between January 20 and February 8, 2009, Human Rights Watch reported.