This interview originally aired on November 19, 2008.
"The Forgotton War' 11/19/2008 at 10:00 a.m. The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is threatening to become a full scale war. Last week, rebel commanders seized an army base and the headquarters of Congo's famous Virunga National Park. The latest round of fighting has seen a dramatic rise in the number of rapes. Some 200,000 people have been displaced since August, according to the World Food Program. That's in addition to the nearly 1.5 million people already displaced since 2007. The socalled "forgotten war" isn't over. We'll look into the history of the crisis in the Congo today. Guest(s) Michael Kavanagh is a writer and public radio reporter. He's been reporting in eastern Congo for BBC, NPR, PBS, and other organizations over the past year through a fellowship from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Kambale Musavuli is a Congolese engineering student at North Carolina A&T University. He helped coordinate Congo Week; a week of activities at university campuses across the country, with the group Friends of the Congo. Vaughn Palmer is a political correspondent for the Vancouver Sun."
