
Emmet Livingstone
Journalist at Freelance
Reporter in the Democratic Republic of Congo for @TheEconomist @NPR @France24 and others | Ex @AFP and @PoliticoEurope staffer | [email protected]
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Mar 20, 2025 |
thedial.world | Emmet Livingstone
Squeezed into a 7-mile space separating an active volcano and the shores of Lake Kivu, Goma is the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. There are wide avenues with nightclubs and hotels in the center, which lies on the border with neighboring Rwanda. Further out, the city gives way to busy markets and, further still, tin shacks and clinker board houses built on jagged volcanic rock.
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Mar 14, 2025 |
theguardian.com | Andrei Popoviciu |Ana Poenariu |Emmet Livingstone |Marine Leduc
In January, after the two-year siege of the Congolese city of Goma ended with victory for the M23 rebels and Rwandan troops, an ill-assorted group of nearly 300 white mercenaries were lined up to have their humiliating defeat televised. “You must not joke with us,” barked Willy Ngoma, the M23’s military spokesperson, at one man he’d ordered to sit on the ground with his hands clasped behind his head.
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Feb 17, 2025 |
wunc.org | Emmet Livingstone
Rwandan-backed rebels have taken over a second city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as they continue to seize territory under the watching and passive eyes of the international community.
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Feb 17, 2025 |
wxxinews.org | Emmet Livingstone
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Feb 8, 2025 |
tpr.org | Emmet Livingstone
We'll look at the latest developments in the instability and violence in a region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda-backed fighters are battling Congolese troops.
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