Kabila's Clutch on Congo

How one family steals a country View this email in your browser A round-up of reporting from our grantees, upcoming events, and news from the Pulitzer Center Bloomberg News Kabila's Kleptocracy Michael Kavanagh A Bloomberg News investigation led by grantee Michael Kavanagh shines a light on Congo President Joseph Kabila's network of business interests that reaches into every corner of the country's economy and has brought hundreds of millions of dollars to his family. The sprawling network may explain why Kabila is ignoring pleas by the United States, the European Union and the Congolese people to hand over power when his term expires this week. "Kabila's refusal to step down threatens to thrust his country back into the kind of chaos that cost millions of lives after his father took power nearly two decades ago." If you are an educator, use our Lesson Builder to help your students understand the troubled history of this critical African nation and why it matters.  Read Story TIME Born Without a Country Lynsey Addario, Aryn Baker and Francesca Trianni The beginning of life could hardly be more inauspicious for babies born in refugee camps. In a project introduced on the cover of Time Magazine, grantees Lynsey Addario, Aryn Baker and Francesca Trianni are tracking these young lives over the course of their first year. Read Story The Guardian A Hero in a Time of Dictators Ewen MacAskill In this inspiring piece for The Guardian's "Long Read," grantee Ewen MacAskill tells the story of how one man's courage made a difference and saved the lives of 30,000 others in Chile. Read Story EVENTS AIDS Talk at UCSF Archive Wednesday, January 11, 2017 What Will It Take to End AIDS? Thursday, January 12, 2017 MORE FROM PULITZER CENTER The New Statesman The Portrait Is Falling: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe Martin Fletcher The Nation These Photos Show the People Who Turn a Cotton Plant Into Your Jeans Meta Krese and Jošt Franko Foreign Policy China Doesn't Mind Islamic Extremists: As Long As They're Not Uighur Alice Su The Next Frontier in Mining: Deep Sea Exploitation in the Pacific Sarah Fahmy Grantee Joshua Hammer's 'The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu' Joshua Hammer Erik Vance's New Book 'Suggestible You' Erik Vance End of AIDS: Q&A With the Pulitzer Center and Global Health NOW Kem Knapp Sawyer Ewen MacAskill on Latin America's Schindler DONATE The Pulitzer Center promotes in-depth engagement with global affairs through its support for quality international journalism across all media platforms and an innovative program of outreach and education. You are receiving this email because you either opted in at our website or signed up at a Pulitzer Center event. Our mailing address is: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW Suite 615 Washington, District Of Columbia 20036 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list