I am no longer an expert on Africa: It has been years since I worked there, and my ability to keep up with the news there is limited since I was a busy doctor and now I am retired but live in the Philippines where until recent years had a slow internet.
But anyway, the ignorance of the US press/pundits on Africa is astonishing (which is why I tend to read about Africa on Al Jazeerah).
And example: The massacres of a Christian hospital in the Congo by Jihadis.
I thought this was about the massacres in a hospital in the Sudan but that was last week
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx31ezjr04o
and that war by rebel vs government helped by Russian mercenaries and is about who gets the gold, not about religion, but never mind.
This story is getting some mention in the US press because Trumpieby is pressuring the Nigerian government to stop the massacre of Chrisians in Nigeria. Which is partly jihadi,and partly tribal and although most of the dead are Christian, both groups will kill the moderate Muslims too, because they are farmers of the wrong tribe and don't follow radical forms of Islam.
Well, anyway, the article I am citing is here, about a massacre at a Catholic hospital in the Congo.
and I cam across it on Instapundit, a libertarian blog which links to that article thus:
ETHNIC CLEANSING IS TO BE IGNORED AND TOLERATED WHEN MUSLIMS DO IT: Congo Jihadis Massacre Catholic Hospital Patients as Fighting Rages On.
well, anyway, the discussion is full of intelligent republican types who know diddly squat about Africa.
My ignorance is also huge but I did try to correct some of the comments and here are the posts:
it is not just jihadis.
The Congo has had so many massacres by various insurgencies that there is a Wikipedia page. Most of these before recent years were by various revolutionary groups, usually funded by the communists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
and let's not forget the millions killed by that Christian King Leopold at the turn of the 20th century.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/library-research-services/collections/diversity-inclusion-belonging/king-leopolds
later a commenter said: It is the heart of darkness. Sometimes it's religion sometimes it's tribal. The Hutu vs Tutsi "Rwandan genocide" 30 years ago killed 800,000. Many with machetes. to which I replied:
and ironically those countries had many Christians doing the killing.
Indeed, the Muslims often refused to kill their neighbors when ordered to do so, claiming it was against their religion. As a result many survivors converted to Islam.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2003/11/9/rwandans-embrace-islam-in-wake-of-genocide
and then there were comments if the US should intervene, which won't happen because as one poster pointed out it would result in the US being blamed for the killings.
]And so I posted that the US is not the only one with military capacities there
But you know, China is there and they will send in their Wolf Warriors to rescue their people if the Jihadis attack the cobalt and rare earth metal mines.
https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia-pacific/china-africa/china-expands-its-peace-and-security-footprint-africa
,,,,,and the world is ignoring the Russian mercenaries who are fueling the murderous war in the Sudan.
https://africanarguments.org/2025/11/gold-and-mercenaries-the-price-of-the-massacre-in-sudan.....
that is where I left it: leaving out the French military, and the American training groups, not to mention the history of Cuban mercenaries, South African intervention, and the African union peacekeepers and UN peacekeepers who sometimes are successful but often are corrupt.
Sigh.
