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Congo-Kinshasa

Population: 59.3 million
GNI: $7700 million
Debt: $9400 million
Overview: Diplomats will step up efforts to dampen down conflict in the Kivus, as President Joseph Kabila faces huge financing and infrastructure deficits, and must rule on the validity of some key mining contracts.

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  • Vol 43 No 10
  • 17/05/2002

Behind the partition

Since 52 days of inter-Congolese talks at Sun City ended last month, a new partition is emerging. Some 70 per cent of the territory is covered by the 'framework agreement' between President Joseph Kabila's government and most of its opponents . . .

  • Vol 43 No 8
  • 19/04/2002

Sundown

Rebel and government delegations are regrouping – not reuniting their country

  • Vol 43 No 8
  • 19/04/2002

Who killed Laurent?

The death penalty hangs over the accused but the trial is alternately tedious and entertaining. At Kinshasa's central prison on 15 March, a military court began trying some 125 suspects charged with plotting the assassination of the late President Laurent...

  • Vol 43 No 4
  • 22/02/2002

High stakes at Sun City

Slow-flowing funds and covert bargains put peace-talks at risk

  • Vol 43 No 2
  • 25/01/2002

Under the volcano

Even the latest catastrophe in Goma isn't pushing the combatants into negotiations

  • Vol 42 No 24
  • 07/12/2001

Santa's leopards

President Joseph Kabila and rebel leaders Jean-Pierre Bemba and Adolphe Onosumba are due to meet in Abuja, Nigeria on 13 December to speed up negotiations to end the war and set up a transitional regime. Presiding host President Olusegun Obasanjo is being...

  • Vol 42 No 21
  • 26/10/2001

Piecemeal

Nelson Mandela's plan annoys almost eveyone but there's no alternative in sight

  • Vol 42 No 21
  • 26/10/2001

Walk out

The Kinshasa government's abandonment of the Inter-Congolese dialogue on 19 October raises new doubts about its commitment to the Lusaka peace accord. Foreign Minister Léonard She Okitundu and Justice Minister Mwenze Kongolo walked out of the talks...

  • Vol 42 No 19
  • 28/09/2001

Dialogue in Addis

The many sides in Congo's wars have started talking; young President Kabila may yet prevail

  • Vol 42 No 18
  • 14/09/2001

Clean-up or cover-up

The latest effort to clean up state companies isn't as sweeping as it looks. President Joseph Kabila has suspended the boards of 57 of them, appointed provisional management committees and called for new business plans. This follows a 7 August audit detai...

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