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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 42 No 2
  • 26/01/2001

Congo-Kinshasa: Kabila est mort, vive Kabila!

The plot to kill the President has created the country's first dynasty and left a door ajar for peace

  • Vol 42 No 2
  • 26/01/2001

The pro-consuls decide

Kabila's murder will increase foreign meddling in Kinshasa politics

  • Vol 41 No 25
  • 22/12/2000

End of empire

The latest would-be peacemaker for Congo-Kinshasa is the President of neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso.

  • Vol 41 No 23
  • 24/11/2000

Bonding in Brussels

A new opposition alliance is trying to start talks between government and rebels

  • Vol 41 No 21
  • 27/10/2000

Conditional offers

Fresh peace initiatives for the Democratic Republic of Congo look pointless, as government, rebels and their respective sponsors gear up for more fighting. The last regional summit on Congo, in Maputo, Mozambique, on 16 October, committed all sides to mov...

  • Vol 41 No 20
  • 13/10/2000

Dropping Kabila

Regional powers led Angola are pressuring Congo's leader to talk peace

  • Vol 41 No 18
  • 15/09/2000

Soldiers of misfortune

Mercenaries and miners will play a key role in President Kabila's latest offensive

  • Vol 41 No 17
  • 01/09/2000

A losing gamble

Under renewed military pressure President Kabila's regime does not understand the strength of its opponents

  • Vol 41 No 17
  • 01/09/2000

Bemba's boys

The Mouvement de Libération du Congo was formed between late 1998 and early 1999 around Jean-Pierre Bemba, a huge man who stands some 1.90 metres tall and weighs perhaps 120 kilogrammes, and once ran an airline and a cellular telephone company. Sin...

  • Vol 41 No 12
  • 09/06/2000

Glittering prizes II

The arrest in Kinshasa of Mines Minister Frédéric Kibassa Maliba and Economy Minister Bemba Saolona raises more doubts about the planned launching of Oryx Diamonds on the London Stock Exchange on 13 June (AC Vol 41 No 11). Maliba and Saolona...

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