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Congo-Kinshasa
Population: 70.4 mn.
GDP: 13.0 bn.
Debt: 2.4 bn.
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President Joseph Kabila's disputed election victory will dominate politics as opposition candidate Étienne Tshisekedi declares himself the 'real' president. Militia violence will plague the east but mining output is due to grow by about 15% over the next four years.

Congo-Kinshasa Country Report

 


news from Congo-Kinshasa

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  • Vol 44 No 24
  •  5th December 2003

After the war economy

Kinshasa has high hopes of the World Bank consultative group meeting in Paris on 17-18 December, where eight Congolese ministers will argue for more aid to consolidate the peace. At the top of the agenda is more money for the Programme Multisectoriel d'Ur...

  • Vol 44 No 23
  •  21st November 2003

Surrender!

Rwandan intelligence scores full marks for orchestrating the surrender of Hutu rebel leader Paul Rwarakabije on 16 November and wrongfooting both the United Nations and President Joseph Kabila's power-sharing government in Kinshasa. Based in Congo-Kinshas...

  • Vol 44 No 21
  •  24th October 2003

Cutting-edge diplomacy

President Joseph Kabila's planned meeting with United States President George Bush on 5 November is a personal triumph for Israeli diamond trader and Congo's ambassador at large Dan Gertler who, along with his business partner Chaim Leibovitz, has been cu...

  • Vol 44 No 20
  •  10th October 2003

Le grand retour

President Kabila is thriving in the new coalition but many fear it will be the last chance to reunite the country

  • Vol 44 No 18
  •  12th September 2003

Not welcome

Having arrested the former head of late President Mobutu Sese Seko's feared Garde Civile, General Kpama Baramoto Kata, Belgium can't find a country willing to take him. Baramoto was detained at Brussels airport on 27 July arriving from the United States, ...

  • Vol 44 No 17
  •  29th August 2003

No French leave

After weeks of denials, the French-led Interim Emergency Multinational Force is to stay in Congo's north-east Ituri district past its declared exit date of 1 September to assist United Nations peacekeepers to deploy under a UN Security Council resolution ...

  • Vol 44 No 17
  •  29th August 2003

Ties that bind

Having given sanctuary to late President Mobutu Sese Seko, Morocco is maintaining close ties with Joseph Kabila, some of whose intelligence and close protection agents are being trained by Moroccan security.

  • Vol 44 No 16
  •  8th August 2003

Deals in the West, war in the East

Continuing slaughter in the east reveals the faultlines of the Kinshasa regime

  • Vol 44 No 14
  •  11th July 2003

The nearly government

The latest political deal holds out a hope of stabilising the east after five years of horror

  • Vol 44 No 13
  •  27th June 2003

Nobody's moving

A temporary calm in Ituri does not mean progress towards national peace

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