- Vol 53 No 24
- 30th November 2012
After the eastern rebels trounce the national army and opposition movements step up the pressure, the President is fighting for his political life
- Vol 53 No 24
- 30th November 2012
The full details of Goma’s fall are still murky but the main military push started on 19 November when, say local people, fighters from the Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) began to cross from over the Rwandan border into territory held by the Congolese nationa...
- Vol 53 No 23
- 16th November 2012
The controversy over the United Nations’ report on the conflict in eastern Congo-Kinshasa continued this week as the UN Security Council debated it yet again. The United States is against formal publication of the report by the Group of Experts and Britai...
- Vol 53 No 22
- 2nd November 2012
A new UN report accuses both Uganda and Rwanda are running the M23 rebellion: foreign support for Kampala could soon be suspended
- Vol 53 No 21
- 19th October 2012
Indirect talks between the M23 rebels in North Kivu and the Kinshasa government are finally taking place in Uganda, sources in Kampala have told Africa Confidential. Yet this news was quickly followed by the leak by United Nations officials in New York of...
- Vol 53 No 20
- 5th October 2012
Cries of disappointment resound from those expecting François Hollande’s election as President to make a decisive break with the clandestine commercial networks between Paris and its African former colonies.
- Vol 53 No 19
- 21st September 2012
Joseph Kabila and Paul Kagame take their battles over the Kivu provinces to the UN General Assembly
- Vol 53 No 18
- 7th September 2012
Discontent is widespread and the Francophone summit will do little to cover up the national cracks
- Vol 53 No 18
- 7th September 2012
The Kivu crisis is diverting attention from other provinces where order is collapsing. In Katanga, two Republican Guard soldiers at Lubumbashi Airport were shot dead during squabbling over money, reportedly extorted from civilians. This has revived fears ...
- Vol 53 No 16
- 3rd August 2012
The rebels of the Mouvement du 23 mars in North Kivu Province were only 20 kilometres north of Goma and looked likely to attack the town, sources there told Africa Confidential as we went to press. M23 fighters have prepared by training for urban warfare,...