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  • Vol 49 No 12
  • 06/06/2008

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
  • 23/05/2008

In the rain-forrest

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

  • Vol 49 No 10
  • 09/05/2008

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 (Def...

  • Vol 49 No 2
  • 16/01/2008

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
  • 27/04/2007

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 ...

  • Vol 47 No 2
  • 20/01/2006

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...

  • Vol 46 No 5
  • 04/03/2005

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 ...

  • Vol 45 No 21
  • 22/10/2004

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 ...

  • Vol 45 No 2
  • 23/01/2004

Gun law

Belgian-based Groupe George Forrest has energetically rejected reports by a United Nations panel of experts and international human rights groups criticising its mining operations in Congo-Kinshasa as exploitative and linking them to the conflict there. ...

  • Vol 44 No 18
  • 12/09/2003

Not welcome

Having arrested the former head of late President Mobutu Sese Seko's feared Garde Civile, General Kpama Baramoto Kata, Belgium can't find a country willing to take him. Baramoto was detained at Brussels airport on 27 July arriving from the United States, ...

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