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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 40 No 14
  • 09/07/1999

Kabila's last throw

A looming battle for the diamond capital of Mbuji-Mayi makes a ceasefire agreement more attractive to the Kinshasa regime

  • Vol 40 No 10
  • 14/05/1999

Big Wheels

The news that creditor banks met to discuss the future of well connected Zimbabwean entrepreneur Bill Rautenbach's Hyundai Motor Distributors in Botswana raises questions about his continuing operations in Congo-Kinshasa.

  • Vol 40 No 8
  • 16/04/1999

Fantasy rules

International and regional peacekeeping efforts fail to impress the belligerents

  • Vol 40 No 8
  • 16/04/1999

The military imbalance

In most regions the rebel forces are driving back Laurent Kabila's soldiers and their foreign allies. In southern Congo, though, neither side is advancing: on 12 April the rebels held Kasenga town, on the Zambian frontier, but in the Moba region they...

  • Vol 40 No 5
  • 05/05/1999

Hard talk in Kinshasa

Kabila's allies are pushing him to make peace with the rebels

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