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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 41 No 11
  • 26/05/2000

Glittering prizes from the war

A new mining consortium in partnership with Congo and Zimbabwe is to be launched on the London Stock Exchange

  • Vol 41 No 9
  • 28/04/2000

A military trap

Harare's domestic crisis makes its military intervention look even shakier

  • Vol 41 No 7
  • 31/03/2000

Bye bye Billy

The ousting of Zimbabwean magnate Billy Rautenbach as Chief Executive of Congo-Kinshasa's Gécamines and the breaking up of his Congo-based Central Mining Group is part of a bigger business row between Kinshasa and Harare. It's bad news for Rautenbach and ...

  • Vol 41 No 4
  • 18/02/2000

Hanging on

Kabila's regime proves more durable than expected but he musn't offend his allies

  • Vol 41 No 4
  • 18/02/2000

Shaky movers

The men who lead Laurent-Désiré Kabila's government were mostly in exile till he seized power in 1997 and owe their status to presidential favour rather than local power-base. The main divide is between the dominant North Katangans, the Kasa...

  • Vol 41 No 3
  • 04/02/2000

UN-convincing

Almost all the participants claimed victory in the United Nations Security Council's special session on Congo-Kinshasa, convened by United States' Ambassador Richard Holbrooke on 24-26 January. US and British diplomats speak of real progress on getting a ...

  • Vol 40 No 23
  • 19/12/1999

Diamonds for guns

A five-man Libyan 'business delegation' visited Kinshasa last month to express Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's 'desire to invest in the diamond sector', said local press reports. The Libyans, who met Albert Luhalwe, the DRC's Deputy Finance Minister, and...

  • Vol 40 No 22
  • 05/11/1999

Precious little peace

Divided rebels, stay-put foreign troops and carpet-bagging threaten the ceasefire

  • Vol 40 No 22
  • 05/11/1999

Rhodies to the rescue

Some of Ian Smith's old friends are helping to finance Robert Mugabe's Congo war effort

  • Vol 40 No 18
  • 10/09/1999

Complex war, ambitious peace

The Lusaka accord is the best chance yet to tackle the roots of Central Africa's interlocking wars if it wins Western backing

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