- Vol 54 No 9
- 26th April 2013
Military movements in eastern Congo-Kinshasa are increasing while the peace talks in Kampala between the government and the rebel Mouvement du 23 mars have stalled. On 22 April, a unit of the national army, the Forces armées de la république démocratique...
- Vol 54 No 7
- 29th March 2013
The government may feel happier about events in the Kivus and Kinshasa but that leaves Katanga to worry about
- Vol 54 No 7
- 29th March 2013
As Jean-Bosco Ntaganda begins his likely lengthy stay in the Hague, attention at home has turned to his former allies in what is left of the Rwandan-backed Mouvement du 23 mars. Some 1,300 M23 fighters, now under the undisputed leadership of Sultani Maken...
- Vol 54 No 6
- 15th March 2013
Moves are afoot to reintegrate the rebels, ending the revolt by agreeing to
their demands and putting Jean-Bosco Ntaganda out in the cold
- Vol 54 No 5
- 1st March 2013
Brutal armed gangs roam across Katanga and threaten the Copperbelt where the country’s mineral wealth lies
- Vol 54 No 5
- 1st March 2013
• The best-known of Katanga’s Mai-Mai leaders is Gédéon Kyungu Mutanga, a warlord who presided over a reign of terror between 2003 and 2006. He was condemned to death by a military court in 2009 before escaping in September 2011.
- Vol 54 No 5
- 1st March 2013
Gabriel Kyungu wa Kumwanza, 75, Muluba from Katanga. Elected to Parliament in 1980, he opposed the late President Mobutu Sese Seko’s regime alongside Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba, veteran leader of the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS)...
- Vol 54 No 5
- 1st March 2013
The deal designed to bring peace to Congo-Kinshasa’s troubled east is finally done. Doubts may abound but none were visible in Addis Ababa as South African President Jacob Zuma and his ex-wife and African Union Commission Chairwoman, Nkosazana Dlamini-Z...
- Vol 54 No 1
- 11th January 2013
President Kabila’s legitimacy is under attack at home while the country faces ruthless rebel militias backed by Rwanda and Uganda
- Vol 53 No 24
- 30th November 2012
After the eastern rebels trounce the national army and opposition movements step up the pressure, the President is fighting for his political life