Congo-Kinshasa

• Vol 44 No 17
• 29/08/2003

Ties that bind

Having given sanctuary to late President Mobutu Sese Seko, Morocco is maintaining close ties with Joseph Kabila, some of whose intelligence and close protection agents are being trained by Moroccan security.

• Vol 44 No 16
• 08/08/2003

Deals in the West, war in the East

Continuing slaughter in the east reveals the faultlines of the Kinshasa regime

• Vol 44 No 14
• 11/07/2003

The nearly government

The latest political deal holds out a hope of stabilising the east after five years of horror

• Vol 44 No 13
• 27/06/2003

Nobody's moving

A temporary calm in Ituri does not mean progress towards national peace

• Vol 44 No 13
• 27/06/2003

The Ituri militias

• Vol 44 No 12
• 13/06/2003

Battle for Bunia

Quarrelling over posts in a power-sharing government, pitting Kinshasa's proxies against those of Rwanda, reflects a similar struggle in eastern Congo where Kinshasa and Rwanda back rival militias. In both cases, civil society and non-armed opposition are...

• Vol 44 No 11
• 30/05/2003

Un-rapid reaction

Fighting is worsening in the north-eastern Ituri Province but plans for a 2,000-strong rapid reaction force are embroiled in United Nations and European Union bureaucracy. The proposed French-led force with a tough peace-enforcement mandate faces diplomat...

• Vol 44 No 9
• 02/05/2003

Drummed out

Only a burst tyre and a forced landing made Uganda miss its 24 April deadline to pull its troops out of north-eastern Congo-Kinshasa. They set off in four Antonov transport aeroplanes for Entebbe the following day. Locals loudly cheered their farewell par...

• Vol 44 No 9
• 02/05/2003

Wood for the trees

Mystery surrounds the fate of a proposed US$50 million investment in the Shikolobwe concession in Katanga, one of the world's richest deposits of copper, cobalt and uranium. The United States used Shikolobwe uranium for the atomic bomb it dropped on Hiros...

• Vol 44 No 8
• 18/04/2003

Deeper and deeper

President Mbeki is betting his diplomatic credibility on success in brokering peace in Congo and Burundi