This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman with Nermy and Shire.

We continue now with Part Two of our interview with Anjane Sundaram, award-winning journalist

and author.

His new piece in foreign policy is headlined, Why the World's Deadliest Wars Go Unreported.

His latest book is Breakup, A Marriage and War Time.

He's also the author of two other memoirs of journalism set in Central Africa.

He's a Yale mathematician who declined a job in finance to move to the Democratic Republic

of Congo or DRC.

To report on the world's deadliest conflict that had received virtually no media coverage

certainly in the West, despite being the deadliest conflict since World War II.

He's joining us now from Mexico City where he moved two years ago to report on the threats

faced by environmental defenders.

So in Part One of our discussion, Anjane, we started to talk about the Democratic Republic

and also the New York Times, a bed you wrote about the Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

It's headlined, He's a brutal dictator and one of the West's best friends.

When you talk about the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lay out the beginnings

of this war, what it's being fought over, and the relation between Congo and Rwanda, how

Rwanda is fueling this war.

Absolutely, it's a very important question for that region.

Congo is a giant country in Central Africa.

Rwanda is a much, much smaller country just to the east of Congo.

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