A look at (potential) enhancers and impediments.

The report explores the stakeholders involved, governance structures, and socio- ecological impacts of sand mining in the Alage and Sankura districts of Ethiopia.

Rethinking the centrality of minerals for conflicts in the DRC, this article is part of a special issue in Alternatives Sud on the reproduction of predations in Congo.

How Acholi Peasants Drew a UN Agency into Their Struggle against Land-Grabbing by the Ugandan State

This special issue traces new forms and practices of rural radicalism.

Two dynamics dominated the political and social context in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. One was the electoral process, and the second dynamic was the further intensification of the conflict with the Rwandan-backed M23 in North Kivu Province.