Under scrutiny since 2002, the Forrest Group is in trouble
with the United Nations again
Tensions between Kinshasa and Kampala are heating up again and oil fortunes are at stake
The habitual politeness between Belgium and its former
colony grew thinner still during a five-day visit to Kinshasa
in late April by three ministers from Brussels, Karel De Gucht
(Foreign Affairs), Charles Michel (Cooperation) and
Pieter De Crem (Def...
The halting of United Nations' investigations into allegations
of abuses by Indian and Pakistani peacekeepers in
Congo-Kinshasa raises new questions about UN accountability and
the legal responsibilities of troop contributing countries. BBC
Africa Ed...
Congo-Kinshasa and Uganda still disagree about
their shared border, but the scraps in which soldiers and civilians
were killed on Lake Albert late last year have faded away, and
companies on the Ugandan side are looking for oil again. The biggest
is T...
Kinshasa futilely and violently tries to quash the longstanding BDK separatist threat in the west, leaving scores of people dead
The government wants to sort out its mining concessions and the investors are nervous
Peace has not broken out in the Kivus yet. In Goma diplomats
are trying to organise follow-up meetings to the accord signed
last month between the Congolese government, dissident General
Laurent Nkunda's Congrès National pour la Défense
...
The latest peace deal for eastern Congo may end up like its
predecessors, in renewed regional wars
President Joseph Kabila, by an order dated 12 January,
massively increased his economic power and political patronage.
He replaced the heads of 37 state enterprises with his own men.
The former bosses, appointed under pressure from his government's
in...
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