💎 After decade at center of global fight against conflict diamonds, CAR saw #KimberleyProcess embargo lifted late 2024 📘 Our new report finds that sanctions harmed artisanal miners more than armed groups, who increasingly turn to gold for financing Read: ipisresearch.be/publication/... #CARcrisis

After 10 months in Bangui prison, researcher Joseph Figueira Martin’s fate remains uncertain as Touadéra stays firm and Wagner uses his case as "example to dissuade other independent observers from travelling to areas in which Russian mercenaries operate" www.africaintelligence.com/central-afri...

M23’s rebellion is driven by competing claims over land, power & resources. Rwanda is reinforcing it for own strategic objectives—controlling trade & securing buffer in eastern DRC. Intensified militarisaiton of local governance means that, even if M23 can be defeated, lasting peace will take years