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Congo-Kinshasa
Population: 70.4 mn.
GDP: 13.0 bn.
Debt: 2.4 bn.
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President Joseph Kabila's disputed election victory will dominate politics as opposition candidate Étienne Tshisekedi declares himself the 'real' president. Militia violence will plague the east but mining output is due to grow by about 15% over the next four years.

Congo-Kinshasa Country Report

 


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  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Opposition steps up fight

The parliamentary election results look no more credible than the presidential vote and oppositionists wants to test Kabila’s will

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

No confidence vote from companies

The election campaign and its dubious results have made foreign companies jumpy. In early January, the monetary policy and banking operations department of the central bank, the Banque centrale du Congo, said that business confidence had fallen from plus ...

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Electoral chicanery and the UN

Electoral fraud has rarely been better documented than in the presidential poll of 28 November, of which every stage involved the Mission de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation du Congo (AC Vol 52 No 24, & Vol 53 No 1). Given the U...

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

One election, two countries

The new dividing line in the country is between those who believe that Joseph Kabila won the presidency and those who don’t

  • Vol 52 No 25
  •  16th December 2011

Kabila: from farce to tragedy

Having stayed silent on corrupt mining deals, the United Nations and the West want the embarrassing election crisis to disappear

  • Vol 52 No 25
  •  16th December 2011

Timeline of a troubled vote

• September 2011: The International Crisis Group reported that the registration of electors by the Commission électorale nationale indépendante (CENI) showed 'surprising results', with higher rates in areas favouring President Joseph Kabila and much lower...

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

Fraud and violence

Calls for the election results, due on 6 December, to be annulled have revived fears of violence. More than a score of people died on 26-28 November, five of them when the Republican Guard fired on demonstrators in Kinshasa’s Masina district on 27 Novembe...

  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

Bargain mine sales draw fire

The government’s secretive, and cheap, sale of lucrative mining assets is fast becoming an election issue

  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

Troubled waters, no oil yet

Potential investors in Congo-Kinshasa worry not only about opacity and corruption but also about the boundaries of concessions. Trinity Oil and Gas, of Houston, United States, wants the government to sort out the undefined offshore frontier with Angola th...

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

Fears grow of poll delay

Electoral officials are trying to make the polls happen on time but the obstacles are many

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