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  • Vol 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

A welcome for Monsieur Z

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has asked Belgian Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere if he will issue a visa for Protais Zigiranyirazo, known as ‘Monsieur Z’ (AC Vol 50 No 14), brother-in-law of President Juvénal Habyarimana, whose death tri...

  • Vol 50 No 12
  •  12th June 2009

Weapons for Darfur

As Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and his 200-member delegation pitched their tent for a business bonanza in Rome, it emerged that Belgium is to export weapons to Libya that may be used in Darfur. An 11.5 million euro (US$16.1 mn.) deal for 2,000 anti-riot g...

  • Vol 49 No 12
  •  6th June 2008

Diamond horror

On 24 May, Kinshasa recalled ‘for consultations’ its Ambassador in Brussels, Jean-Pierre Mutamba, and (to the horror of the diamond trade) closed its Antwerp consulate. Later, it closed Belgian consulates in Bukavu and Lubumbashi. This followed Foreign Mi...

  • Vol 49 No 11
  •  23rd May 2008

In the rain-forrest

Under scrutiny since 2002, the Forrest Group is in trouble with the United Nations again

  • Vol 49 No 10
  •  9th May 2008

Drifting apart

The habitual politeness between Belgium and its former colony grew thinner still during a five-day visit to Kinshasa in late April by three ministers from Brussels, Karel De Gucht (Foreign Affairs), Charles Michel (Cooperation) and Pieter De Crem (Defence...

  • Vol 49 No 2
  •  16th January 2008

Father and son

Congolese know about dynasties. Incumbent President Joseph Kabila is the son of his assassinated predecessor, Laurent Désirée Kabila, and the political scene in Kinshasa is peppered with the offspring of the late Mobutu Sese Seko, many aspiring to high of...

  • Vol 48 No 9
  •  27th April 2007

The past awakes

On 19 April, the trial opened of the man accused of causing the death of ten United Nations' peacekeepers on 7 April 1994. The indictment says Major Bernard Ntuyahaga ordered the Belgian 'blue helmets' who were escorting Premier Agathe Uwilingiyimana to ...

  • Vol 47 No 2
  •  20th January 2006

Death in the canal

On 17 December, a naked and mutilated corpse turned up in a Brussels canal. Five days later, after DNA tests, it was identified as that of Juvénal Uwingiliyimana, 54, a Rwandan refugee in Belgium since 1998, who had disappeared from his Brussels ho...

  • Vol 46 No 5
  •  4th March 2005

Belgium's bullet points

Tanzania is getting a new ammunition factory thanks to George Forrest International, a firm whose eponymous main shareholder has big interests in Congo-Kinshasa and has told United Nations investigators and Belgian Senators it had no connections with mili...

  • Vol 45 No 21
  •  22nd October 2004

Pig in a poke

Attempts to strengthen Congo's new integrated national army have met an unexpected obstacle. Five weeks' 'training the trainers' in Belgium was planned for 285 Congolese officers. But 16 (four female) promptly decamped from Elsenborn Barracks. Belgian Def...

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