Congo-Kinshasa

Population: 66.0 million
GDP: $11100 million
Debt: $125% of GDP
Overview:

With leading oppositionists Jean-Pierre Bemba and Etienne Tshisekedi unlikely to campaign effectively, President Joseph Kabila prepares for an easier run in the 2011 elections. The mandate of the United Nations peacekeepers has been extended until June.

news from Congo-Kinshasa

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  • Vol 51 No 16
  • 06/08/2010

New pressure on the war-minerals link

Congo's 'clean' minerals are more politically toxic than buyers would like

  • Vol 51 No 16
  • 06/08/2010

Contract clashes

President Joseph Kabila's government is set for another round of legal clashes with foreign companies. First is Canada's First Quantum, locked in battle with Kinshasa at the International Court of Arbitration in Paris. On 27 July, Congo's Court of Appe...

  • Vol 51 No 16
  • 06/08/2010

8 ways to clean up minerals

Several schemes and approaches aim to limit the flow of Congo-Kinshasa's conflict minerals, not all of them as well coordinated as they should be. Here is our rundown.

  • Vol 51 No 15
  • 23/07/2010

Katanga makes a comeback

The secessionist movement that almost split the country 50 years ago is again on the march

  • Vol 51 No 14
  • 09/07/2010

Half a century, half the battle

After assassinations, wars and hyper-corruption, President Kabila talks of building on remarkable victories

  • Vol 51 No 14
  • 09/07/2010

Odious debts, now less debt

More than a decade of tortuous negotiations has won US$8 billion of debt relief for Congo-Kinshasa a day after its fiftieth birthday. The historic, moral argument for relief is straightforward. The IMF and the World Bank, under pressure from Britain, Bel...

  • Vol 51 No 14
  • 09/07/2010

Secret oil deal

The emergence of Khulubuse Zuma, the nephew of South African President Jacob Zuma, as a leading player in Congo-Kinshasa’s oil industry has provoked curiosity and anger in almost equal measure. Caprikat and Foxwhelp – two companies which Khulubuse Zuma c...

  • Vol 51 No 13
  • 25/06/2010

Ottawa confronts Africa at the G-20 summit

Canadian officials will raise a mining dispute with the Kinshasa government when they host the grand summit this weekend

  • Vol 51 No 13
  • 25/06/2010

The Kingamyambo Musonoi tailings

A tailings timeline

  • Vol 51 No 12
  • 11/06/2010

A disastrous half-century

The foreign plunderers have joined with the local elite to create today’s political confusion

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