This week me and Dave talk about the increasingly desperate situation out in the East of Congo, as Rwandan-backed forces take another stunningly important piece of territory, in this case, Bukavu, a city of two million resting right across the lake from Rwanda.

We talk about the increasingly tense situation across the continent, as countries like Burundi and Uganda deepen their involvement, in what increasingly seems like a scramble for territory and a slice of the mineral pie.

We talk about the increasingly central role of one man’s ambition in all of this and the potential for things to deteriorate out of anyone’s control (which leads, inevitably, to the discussion of the usefulness of comparing anything to Yugoslavia and why Slovenia is the California of the Balkans).

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