- Vol 50 No 1
- 9th January 2009
Falling commodity prices and failing politicians will make a dangerous
combination this year
- Vol 49 No 1
- 11th January 2008
African peacekeepers, Western financiers and local negotiators will struggle to dampen the regional fires
- Vol 48 No 1
- 12th January 2007
Congo-Kinshasa tries to consolidate after elections as Chad and Central African Republic face down Sudan-sponsored rebels
- Vol 48 No 1
- 12th January 2007
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 is s...
- Vol 47 No 1
- 6th January 2006
A successful conclusion to Congo-Kinshasa's transition will reshape
the region
- Vol 46 No 1
- 7th January 2005
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 wor...
- Vol 45 No 1
- 9th January 2004
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
- 10th January 2003
Congo-Kinshasa's halting peace efforts may at last help stabilise
the region
- Vol 43 No 1
- 11th January 2002
Two peace deals and a crowded reform agenda point to a way out of the chaos
- Vol 42 No 1
- 12th January 2001
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 ...