Anna Ridout
Anna Ridout is Communications Manager for World Vision in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. She writes a regular eye-witness blog about life in eastern Congo.
Finding solutions to eastern Congo's violence
Author: Anna Ridout
For six months now, I've been asking myself and others, what will end the cycle of war in east Democratic Republic of Congo? As I prepare to leave, I think I may have found the answer - education. What will start to unravel the militarisation of society? What will give young boys alternatives to war? What will tackle the poverty, which forces many to fight? Every time, I come back to education. ...
Author: Anna Ridout
For six months now, I've been asking myself and others, what will end the cycle of war in east Democratic Republic of Congo? As I prepare to leave, I think I may have found the answer - education. What will start to unravel the militarisation of society? What will give young boys alternatives to war? What will tackle the poverty, which forces many to fight? Every time, I come back to education. ...
Waiting for war in eastern Congo
Author: Anna Ridout
Every village I visit or every town I drive through, there are men with guns. On the roadside, living in small grass huts, patrolling market places, walking down long stretches of rural road. Their big polished boots and dark sunglasses make them all the more present and dominating. ...
Author: Anna Ridout
Every village I visit or every town I drive through, there are men with guns. On the roadside, living in small grass huts, patrolling market places, walking down long stretches of rural road. Their big polished boots and dark sunglasses make them all the more present and dominating. ...
Camera-shy rebels keep Congo crisis out of the news
Author: Anna Ridout
When I arrived in Democratic Republic of Congo five months ago, you couldn't move for journalists, photographers and film crews. They'd come to report the mass displacement of 250,000 Congolese forced from their homes by clashes between Government troops and the CNDP, a predominantly Tutsi rebel group, led by renegade General Laurent Nkunda. Since then a surprising chain of events has led to Nkunda's arrest, his troops' integration into the Congolese army (their recent foes) and a peace deal, witnessed by the United Nations and its international mediator. ...
Author: Anna Ridout
When I arrived in Democratic Republic of Congo five months ago, you couldn't move for journalists, photographers and film crews. They'd come to report the mass displacement of 250,000 Congolese forced from their homes by clashes between Government troops and the CNDP, a predominantly Tutsi rebel group, led by renegade General Laurent Nkunda. Since then a surprising chain of events has led to Nkunda's arrest, his troops' integration into the Congolese army (their recent foes) and a peace deal, witnessed by the United Nations and its international mediator. ...
