by DAVID AXE U.S. Army and Congolese army doctors render free medical care at a clinic in Kinshasa, as part of the Medflag '10 exercise.......more
David Axe - Africa is Boring: October 2010 Archives
Axe in Congo: Litter Training
by DAVID AXE Kinshasa -- Corrupt and impoverished, Congo doesn't have much in the way of emergency services. Wrecked cars become semi-permanent urban art installations on the side of the road. When fires break out, it can take hours......more
Axe in Congo: Can't Please Everyone
by DAVID AXE Kinshasa -- A free health clinic was one of the culminating events of the U.S. Army-led "Medflag '10" training exercise in the Democratic Republic of Congo. While American instructors trained up Congolese medics, U.S. and Congolese......more
Axe in Congo: Training the Congolese Army
by DAVID AXE Kinshasa -- Soft power can be tedious, exhausting, frustrating. A hundred U.S. Army doctors and medics are in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, to train several hundred medics from the Congolese Forces Armees de la Republique......more
Axe in Congo: The Army's Training Dilemma
by DAVID AXE Kinshasa -- Colonel Gilbert Kabanda, the surgeon general of the Forces Armees de la Republique Democratique du Congo -- the Congolese army -- is a tiny man, barely more than five feet tall. But he has......more
David Axe in the Horn of Africa
David Axe is freelance war correspondent based in Washington, D.C. He has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan,Lebanon, East Timor and Somalia....