against

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“Eastern DRC has long been a covert economic engine for Rwanda through its illicit networks and proxies,” said Zobel Behalal, senior expert at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, a Washington-based think tank.

From The Wall Street Journal

Rwanda denies supporting M23 and says its troops are in eastern Congo for “defensive measures” against a rebel group formed by Hutu extremists who orchestrated the 1994 genocide in Rwanda before fleeing to Congo.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Insecurity has resulted in the loss of access to productive land and local food production,” said Patrick Andrey, Congo country director at Action Against Hunger, a New York-based charity.

From The Wall Street Journal

She says: "Vinyl is about £5 a metre. The kitchens I've changed were cheap wood veneer against dark lino floor so it made it feel so much lighter when I did it."

From BBC

"For us to know each other, it gets rid of that isolated 'me against the world' feeling - it's actually us against the church."

From BBC