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This report examines the humanitarian and political crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It analyzes the military crisis in the east, the manipulation of identity in the Kivus, political impasse in the capital of Kinshasa and external influences. The paper argues that Congo's transition risks breaking apart over the unreconciled ambitions of the former civil war belligerents. Inability to resolve political differences in Kinshasa have been mirrored by new military tensions that the parties, as well as Rwanda, have stirred up in the Kivus, the birthplace of both wars that ravaged the country in the past decade.