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  • Vol 49 No 1
  • 11/01/2008

A slow road to travel

African peacekeepers, Western financiers and local negotiators will struggle to dampen the regional fires

  • Vol 48 No 1
  • 12/01/2007

On the brink

Congo-Kinshasa tries to consolidate after elections as Chad and Central African Republic face down Sudan-sponsored rebels

  • Vol 48 No 1
  • 12/01/2007

Generals and lawyers

In Burundi, Brigadier General Adolphe Nshimirimana, originally from the ruling Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie-Forces de Défense de la Démocratie, is now the Director of the Documentation Nationale (national intelligence agency) and i...

  • Vol 47 No 1
  • 06/01/2006

Electoral expectations

A successful conclusion to Congo-Kinshasa's transition will reshape the region

  • Vol 46 No 1
  • 07/01/2005

Too many troops

If peace is to come to the region, the weak government in Kinshasa must deal with the eastern Congo crisis, then organise elections due in June but likely to be delayed for at least six months. Tensions with Rwanda will persist in 2005. The World Bank ...

  • Vol 45 No 1
  • 09/01/2004

Not warring but warning

The route to peace in Central Africa is being paved by power-sharing governments and fundraising conferences. For Congo-Kinshasa, Western officials and the World Bank and International Monetary Fund met in Paris last month to pledge a further US$3.9 billi...

  • Vol 44 No 1
  • 10/01/2003

Accords and aggravations

Congo-Kinshasa's halting peace efforts may at last help stabilise the region

  • Vol 43 No 1
  • 11/01/2002

New Year hopes

Two peace deals and a crowded reform agenda point to a way out of the chaos

  • Vol 42 No 1
  • 12/01/2001

Congo imbroglio

Two developments could help peace efforts in Congo-Kinshasa this year: gathering political and financial pressure on the foreign combatants to withdraw their troops and a near consensus among all parties that President Laurent-Désiré Kabila ...

  • Vol 41 No 1
  • 07/01/2000

More rumblings

In Congo-Kinshasa, there is a buzz about the plans of United States' diplomat Richard Holbrooke to hold a Congo summit in New York in late January. Holbrooke is US envoy to the United Nations and chairs the Security Council for the next six months. Th...

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