Congo-Kinshasa

Population: 59.3 million
GNI: $7700 million
Debt: $9400 million
Overview: Diplomats will step up efforts to dampen down conflict in the Kivus, as President Joseph Kabila faces huge financing and infrastructure deficits, and must rule on the validity of some key mining contracts.

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  • Vol 49 No 25
  • 12/12/2008

Nkunda wants the whole deal

The government cannot afford another war – and probably could not win it, so it must talk to its nemesis

  • Vol 49 No 24
  • 28/11/2008

Mining downturn

Low demand for minerals, especially from China, depresses mines and the whole economy

  • Vol 49 No 23
  • 14/11/2008

The man who says no

Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda likes to compare his relentless campaign against the Kinshasa government with the military resistance of General Charles de Gaulle, 'the man who said no'. Taking the parallels further, Nkunda has announced the formation of a...

  • Vol 49 No 23
  • 14/11/2008

How smuggling pays for killing

Most of the Kivu belligerents profit, one way or another, from the two provinces' precious reserves of gold, cassiterite and colombo-tantalite (coltan). Gold and coffee smuggling has been going on for years. A British journalist, Nick Gordon, publishe...

  • Vol 49 No 22
  • 31/10/2008

Facing Nkunda

Foreign Ministers Bernard Kouchner of France and Karel de Gucht of Belgium want the European Union to send forces to take on General Laurent Nkunda and his rebel Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP). Thousands of people fled from Goma, the N...

  • Vol 49 No 22
  • 31/10/2008

Kony's new front

As the crisis around Goma intensifies, conditions further north are deteriorating, opening up the possibility of more regional intervention. In the mineral-rich Orientale, Ugandan Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army has been attacking civilians in ...

  • Vol 49 No 20
  • 03/10/2008

Prime Minister departs

Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga's departure could strengthen President Joseph Kabila's hand, but not for the better

  • Vol 49 No 20
  • 03/10/2008

Forest contracts review

The government is reviewing forestry concessions and Greenpeace produces a report that shows

  • Vol 49 No 19
  • 19/09/2008

Tin soldiers

The commanders of Congo’s army, the Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo, are mining cassiterite (tin ore) and gold in league with the majority Hutu Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda, say ...

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

The competition heats up

As oil exploration continues apace on Lake Albert, Uganda and Congo threaten to make business difficult for foreign companies

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