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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.

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  • Vol 49 No 10
  •  9th May 2008

Under cover

The halting of United Nations' investigations into allegations of abuses by Indian and Pakistani peacekeepers in Congo-Kinshasa raises new questions about UN accountability and the legal responsibilities of troop contributing countries. BBC Africa Editor...

  • Vol 49 No 8
  •  11th April 2008

Lake Albert and the gushers

Congo-Kinshasa and Uganda still disagree about their shared border, but the scraps in which soldiers and civilians were killed on Lake Albert late last year have faded away, and companies on the Ugandan side are looking for oil again. The biggest is Tullo...

  • Vol 49 No 7
  •  28th March 2008

The spirit moves them

Kinshasa futilely and violently tries to quash the longstanding BDK separatist threat in the west, leaving scores of people dead

  • Vol 49 No 6
  •  14th March 2008

Down the mines

The government wants to sort out its mining concessions and the investors are nervous

  • Vol 49 No 6
  •  14th March 2008

Goma's ghosts

Peace has not broken out in the Kivus yet. In Goma diplomats are trying to organise follow-up meetings to the accord signed last month between the Congolese government, dissident General Laurent Nkunda's Congrès National pour la Défense du P...

  • Vol 49 No 3
  •  1st February 2008

Déjà Kivu

The latest peace deal for eastern Congo may end up like its predecessors, in renewed regional wars

  • Vol 49 No 3
  •  1st February 2008

Kabila's men, Kabila's jobs

President Joseph Kabila, by an order dated 12 January, massively increased his economic power and political patronage. He replaced the heads of 37 state enterprises with his own men. The former bosses, appointed under pressure from his government's intern...

  • Vol 48 No 23
  •  16th November 2007

The tail wags the dog

The Kinshasa government is rocked by its failures to resolve the conflict in the eastern Kivu provinces

  • Vol 48 No 23
  •  16th November 2007

Mining undermined

Mining companies were dismayed and share prices wobbled after draft copies of Congo's mining contracts review started circulating in Kinshasa last week. The leaked document is a damning indictment of the country's mining sector. Not one of the more than 6...

  • Vol 48 No 23
  •  16th November 2007

Guerre du lac

Commercial rivalries and contractual disputes over oil reserves in Lake Albert, which runs along the Congo-Kinshasa/ Uganda border, are heating up. Tensions between their two armies have ebbed even if the border row continues to rumble.

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