Congo-Kinshasa

• Vol 48 No 20
• 05/10/2007

Mining men

• Vol 48 No 19
• 21/09/2007

Kasongo v CAMEC

Former England cricketer Phil Edmonds’s roller-coaster ride in Africa is going up again after a 19 September court ruling in Kinshasa recognising the legality of his Central African Mining and Exploration Company’s mining licences. After CAMEC, which i...

• Vol 48 No 18
• 07/09/2007

More fighting, more aid

Renewed fighting in the eastern provinces could help the government to qualify more quickly for aid

• Vol 48 No 14
• 06/07/2007

NKUNDA IN THE HILLS

From a farmhouse in the Masisi Hills, dissident General Laurent Nkunda has told Africa Confidential that he is ready to fight to the bitter end to prevent what he says is an impending attack to wipe out his fellow Congolese Tutsi. Nkunda's rhetoric ha...

• Vol 48 No 13
• 22/06/2007

KIVU CLASHES AHEAD

Fears are growing of a confrontation between the forces of General Laurent Nkunda and the government's Forces Armées Congolaises in North Kivu Province next month. We hear that the United Nations' Mission des Nations Unies en République ...

• Vol 48 No 11
• 25/05/2007

Dollars and mines

A new government-backed investigation into billions of dollars of mining contracts lacks openness and the time to do the job

• Vol 48 No 11
• 25/05/2007

A WOLF IN THE CONGO

Key to the contracts investigation in Congo-Kinshasa will be the role of the World Bank and the legacy of the anti-corruption policies pushed by its outgoing President, Paul Wolfowitz. With backing from Britain and the United States, the Bank has rele...

• Vol 48 No 11
• 25/05/2007

KABILA GETS A RIVAL

An unexpected blast from the past has hit President Joseph Kabila with the victory of Léon Kengo wa Dondo in the 11 May poll for Senate President. This makes the veteran politician - Premier under the late President Mobutu Sese Seko - constitut...

• Vol 48 No 10
• 11/05/2007

Congo-Kinshasa's cumbersome experiment

In late 2006, Congo-Kinshasa elected a parliament of 608 members. It includes 69 political parties, 31 of them with just one member in the National Assembly, along with 63 independents.

• Vol 48 No 8
• 13/04/2007

The bashing of Bemba

The opposition leader may be forced into exile but President Kabila has plenty of battles on the economic front