Congo-Kinshasa

• Vol 48 No 22
•  2nd November 2007

The wooing of Kinshasa

President Joseph Kabila and his cabinet are much in demand as access to Congo-Kinshasa’s minerals is again contested.

• Vol 48 No 20
•  5th October 2007

Le scandale géologique

Under-resourced and under fire - and under investigation again

• Vol 48 No 20
•  5th October 2007

Contracts under review

Some of the companies mentioned on the list of 60 contracts under review - and some that weren't

• Vol 48 No 20
•  5th October 2007

Contract committee

• Vol 48 No 20
•  5th October 2007

Mining men

• Vol 48 No 19
•  21st September 2007

Kasongo v CAMEC

Former England cricketer Phil Edmonds’s roller-coaster ride in Africa is going up again after a 19 September court ruling in Kinshasa recognising the legality of his Central African Mining and Exploration Company’s mining licences. After CAMEC, which is m...

• Vol 48 No 18
•  7th September 2007

More fighting, more aid

Renewed fighting in the eastern provinces could help the government to qualify more quickly for aid

• Vol 48 No 14
•  6th July 2007

Nkunda in the hills

From a farmhouse in the Masisi Hills, dissident General Laurent Nkunda has told Africa Confidential that he is ready to fight to the bitter end to prevent what he says is an impending attack to wipe out his fellow Congolese Tutsi. Nkunda's rhetoric has ha...

• Vol 48 No 13
•  22nd June 2007

Kivu clashes ahead

Fears are growing of a confrontation between the forces of General Laurent Nkunda and the government's Forces Armées Congolaises in North Kivu Province next month. We hear that the United Nations' Mission des Nations Unies en République D&ea...

• Vol 48 No 11
•  25th May 2007

Dollars and mines

A new government-backed investigation into billions of dollars of mining contracts lacks openness and the time to do the job